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| Edward Sabine | |||
| Fifth son and ninth child of Joseph Sabine of Tewin, Hertfordshire. | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| 14 October 1788 | Born (Dublin). | ||
| 1803 | Entered Royal Artillery as 2nd lieutenant. | ||
| 1813 | Captain. | ||
| 1814 | Commanded the batteries in the siege of Fort Erie. | ||
| 1818 | Astronomer in the first Arctic expedition of Sir John Ross. | ||
| 1818 | Fellow of the Royal Society. | ||
| 1819 | 1820 | Astronomer in Sir William Edward Party's expedition. | |
| 1821 | 1823 | Travelled in the Southern hemisphere, using careful pendulum experiments to determine the shape of the earth. | |
| 1840 | 1860 | Superintendant of magnetic observatories in the colonies. | |
| 1850 | 1861 | Vice-president of the Royal Society. | |
| 6 April 1852 | Announced that the 11 year sunspot cycle was 'absolutely identical' with the geomagnetic cycle. | ||
| 14 June 1856 | Major-General. | ||
| 1861 | 1870 | President of the Royal Society. | |
| 20 September 1865 | Lieutenant-General. | ||
| 27 July 1869 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath). | ||
| 1870 | General. | ||
| 1877 | Retired from Army. | ||
| 26 June 1883 | Died (Richmond, London). | ||
| Literature: (DNB; Levere). | |||
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