| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar . Two of Rivers’ ancestors, both also William, serve on board HMS Victory; one as Midshipman, one as Warrant Officer/Gunner, aged 17 and 50 respectively |
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| 1837 | Victoria becomes Queen |
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| 1863 | Henry Rivers and Elizabeth Hunt marry |
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| 1864 | William Halse Rivers Rivers born on March 12th, followed by Charles (1865), Ethel (1867) and Katharine (1871) |
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| 1877 | Wiiliam and Charles start at Tonbridge school as day pupils |
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| 1880 | An illness in his final year at Tonbridge prevents Rivers taking a scholarship exam which would enable him to study at Cambridge University |
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| 1882 | Starts study of Medicine at St. Barts |
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| 1886 | Is youngest person ever to be awarded a Bachelor of Medicine Degree. Record stood until the 1970s |
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| 1887 | Rivers travels as ship’s surgeon to Japan and North America |
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| 1888 | Gains M.D., Elected as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, has first medical publication and takes up a residency post at Chichester |
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| 1889 | Returns to Barts in a residency post and as a researcher |
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| 1891/2 | Begins work at National Hospital for paralysed and Epileptic,Meets Henry Head |
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| 1892/3 | Attends lectures in Jena and Heidelberg,Decides to work ‘as much as possible’ in Psychology upon return’Becomes clinical assistant at Bethlam Royal Hospital, LondonBegins lecturing at University College, London, |
| INVITED TO TEACH AT St. JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE |
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| 1897 | Granted honorary M.A.Becomes director of the first two Psychology labs in the U.K. |
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| 1898 | Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Straits (CAETS) organised by Alfred Cort Haddon,Establishes ‘genealogical Method’,Skill at Fieldwork noted by Haddon and others |
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| 1901 | Victoria dies, Edward 7th is king |
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| 1901/2 | Anthropological work with the Todas of the Nilgiri Hills, India. Resulting book published in 1906 |
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| 1902 | Elected Fellow of St. John’s college |
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| 1903-7 | ‘Head-Rivers’ Experiment |
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| 1906/7 | Experiments upon the ‘Influence of Alcohol and Other Drugs on Fatigue’ |
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| Nov. 1907 – 1908 | Anthropological work in Melanesia |
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| Nov 1908 | Back in England/ St. John’s |
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| 1910 | Edward dies, George 5th is king |
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| 1914 | GREAT WAR BEGINS |
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| 1914/early ‘15 | ‘History of Melanesian Society’ publishedVisits to Melanesia and New HebridesBritish Association for the advancement of Science convention held in AustraliaMons, The Marne, Christmas truce, Gallipoli/Dardanelles Campaign |
| July 1915 | Return to England and determines to do War workBegins at Maghull Miliatary Hospital in Lancashire,Recieves Gold Medal of the Royal Society |
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| 1916 | Commissioned as Capt. in RAMCTransferred to Craiglockhart Hospital for Officers in Edinburgh, ScotlandBattle of the Somme, July – Nov |
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