| Born |
1st May, 1769. |
| Ensign |
7th March, 1787. |
| Lieutenant |
25th December, 1787. |
| Captain |
30th June, 1791. |
| Major |
30th April, 1793. |
| Lieutenant-Colonel |
30th September, 1793. |
| Colonel |
3d May, 1796. |
| Major-General |
29th April, 1802. |
| Lieutenant-General |
25th April, 1808. |
| General, in Spain and Portugal |
31st July, 1811. |
| Field-Marshal |
21st June, 1813. |
| Governor of Seringapatam |
6th May, 1799. |
| The inhabitants of Calcutta vote a sword of the value of 1,000l. to Major-General Wellesley |
21st February, 1804. |
| The officers of his division vote to Major-General Wellesley a gold vase, which is afterwards changed to a service of plate embossed with “Assye.” |
26th February, 1804. |
| Appointed a Knight Companion of the Bath |
1st September, 1804. |
| Thanked by parliament |
8th March, 1805. |
| Returned to serve in parliament |
12th April, 1806. |
| Sworn a Privy Counsellor |
8th April, 1807. |
| Secretary to Ireland |
19th April, 1807. |
| Negotiates capitulation at Copenhagen |
5th September, 1807. |
| Thanked in parliament for the same. |
1st February, 1808. |
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A piece of plate, commemorating the battle of Vimeiro, voted to Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley by the general and field-officers who served at it |
22d August, 1808. |
| Thanked in parliament for Vimeiro |
27th January, 1809. |
| Appointed to command the army in Portugal |
2d April, 1809. |
| Appointed Marshal-General of the Portuguese army |
6th July, 1809. |
| Created Baron Douro of Wellesley and Viscount Wellington of Talavera |
26th August, 1809. |
| Thanks of parliament voted for Talavera |
1st February, 1810. |
| Pension of 2,000l. per annum, voted to him and his two succeeding heirs male |
16th February, 1810. |
| Thanks of parliament for the liberation of Portugal |
26th April, 1811. |
| License granted in the name of the King by the Prince Regent, to accept the title of Conde do Vimeiro, and the insignia of Knight Grand-Cross of the Tower and Sword from the prince regent of Portugal |
26th October, 1811. |
| Created by the regency of Spain a Grandé, with the title of Duque de Ciudad-Rodrigo |
January, 1812. |
| Thanks of parliament for Ciudad-Rodrigo |
10th February, 1812. |
| Advanced in the British peerage by the title of Earl Wellington |
18th February, 1812. |
| Voted 2,000l. per annum in addition |
21st February, 1812. |
| Thanks of parliament for Badajoz |
27th April, 1812. |
| The order of the Golden Fleece conferred by the regency of Spain |
July, 1812. |
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Appointed Generalissimo of the Spanish armies |
12th August, 1812. |
| Advanced in the British peerage by the title of Marquis of Wellington. |
18th August, 1812. |
| Advanced by the regent of Portugal to the title of Marquez de Torres-Vedras |
12th September, 1812. |
| Thanks of parliament for Salamanca. |
3d December, 1812. |
| A grant of 100,000l. from parliament, to be laid out in the purchase of lands as a reward for his services. |
7th December, 1812. |
| Advanced by the regent of Portugal to the title of Duque da Victoria. |
18th December, 1812. |
| Elected a Knight of the Garter |
4th March, 1813. |
| Thanks of parliament for the battle of Vittoria |
8th July, 1813. |
| The regency of Spain, on the proposition of the Cortes, offers to bestow on the Duque de Ciudad-Rodrigo the estate of Soto-de-Roma, in Granada |
22d July, 1813. |
| Thanks of parliament for San-Sebastian and the operations subsequent to Vittoria |
8th October, 1813. |
| The prince Regent grants permission to the Marquis of Wellington to accept and wear the insignia of Grand-Cross of the following orders: Imperial and Royal Austrian Military order of Maria-Theresa; Imperial Russian Military order of St.-George; Royal Prussian Military order of the Black Eagle; Royal Swedish Military order of the Sword |
4th March, 1814. |
| Thanks of the Prince Regent and the parliament for Orthez |
24th March, 1814. |
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Advanced in the British peerage by the titles of Marquis of Douro and Duke of Wellington |
3d May, 1814. |
| A grant of 400,000l. voted by parliament, in addition to the former grants |
24th June, 1814. |
| Ambassador to France |
5th July, 1814. |
| Assists at Congress at Vienna |
January, 1815. |
| Takes command of the British forces on the continent |
11th April, 1815. |
| Battle of Waterloo |
18th June, 1815. |
| Thanks of the Prince Regent and parliament for Waterloo |
22d June, 1815. |
| A grant of 200,000l. voted by parliament, in addition to the former grants |
6th July, 1815. |
| Created Prince of Waterloo by the king of the Netherlands |
18th July, 1815. |
| Commander in chief of the allied armies of occupation |
22d October, 1815. |
| Appointed Field-Marshal in the Austrian, Russian and Prussian armies |
15th November, 1818. |
| Visits Waterloo with George IV |
1st October, 1821. |
| Commander in Chief |
22d January, 1827. |
| First Lord of the Treasury |
13th February, 1828. |
| Appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports |
20th January, 1829. |
| Elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford |
29th January, 1834. |