Individual itineraries and the circulation of scientific and technical knowledge in East Asia (16th–20th centuries)

Birth in Douai

Enters the Society of Jesus in Douai

Leaves for Portugal

Sets sail for Goa from Lisbon

An unnamed printer of Antwerp publishes a Latin edition of Trigaut's "Copie de la lettre... contenant l'accroissement de la foi catholique aux Indes"

An unnamed printer of Antwerp publishes a French translation of Trigaut's "Copie de la lettre... contenant l'accroissement de la foi catholique aux Indes"

An unnamed printer of Antwerp publishes a Flemish translation of Trigaut's "Copie de la lettre... contenant l'accroissement de la foi catholique aux Indes"

French translation of Trigaut's "Copie de la lettre... contenant l'accroissement de la foi catholique aux Indes"

Publication of Coppie de la lettre du R. P. Nicolas Trigault . . . contenant l’accroissement de la Foy Catholique aux Indes, Chines et lieux voisins

Publication: Vita Gasparis Barzaei Belgae e Societate Jesu B. Xaverii in Dinia socii

In Macao

In Zhaoqing fu

An unnamed printer of Antwerp publishes Nicolas Trigault's Vita Gasparis Barzaei

Meeting of Li Zhizao and Nicholas Trigault.

Publication of Vita Gasparis Barzaei Belgae e Societate Jesu B. Xaverii in Dinia socii. Cologne: 1611 (Latin)

Publication of De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu. Ex P. Matthaei Ricij ejusdem Societatis Commentariis Libri V, ad S. D. N. Paulum V. In quibus Sienensis Regni mores, leges atque instituta et nova illius Ecclesiae difficillim

First edition of De Christiana Expeditione in Cologne

In Nanjing

In Hangzhou

In Beijing

Writes annual letters from Nanjing

In Nanxiong

From Macao to Rome, via India, Persia and Egypt

Publication of Vita Gasparis Barzaei Belgae e Societate Jesu B. Xaverii in Dinia socii. Douai: 1615 (French)

Publication of Litterae Societatis Jesu e regno Sinarum ad R. P. Claudium Aquavivam qjusdem Societatis Praepositum Generalem annorum 1610 et 1611. Rome: 1615 (Latin)

Edition of De Christiana Expeditione in Cologne

Fourth vow in Rome

Letter to Archduke of Tuscany, Rome

Letter to China Jesuits, Rome

Rome to Lyon

Letter to General Vitteleschi

Sets sail from Lisbon

Publication of Epistola N. Trigault è Soc. Jesu de navigatione in Indiam; itemque de Statu rei Christianae apud Sinas et Japonios

Letter to Wilhelm of Bavaria, Macao

In Nanchang

Litterae Annuae e Regno Sinarum Anni M.DC.XX. Scriptae a R. P. Nicolao Trigault S. J Nanchang

Littera Annua della Cina dell’ anno 1621 dal P. Nicolò Trigault S. J.—Dalla metropoli Ham ceu, Hangzhou

Report on the missions, Canton

Founds the Henan Mission in Kaifeng

Publication of De Christianis apud Japonios triumphis, sive de gravissima ibidem contra Christi fidem persecutione exorta anno 1612 usque ad annum 1620, libri V, in annos totidem summa cum fide ex annuis Societatis Jesu litteris continua historiae serie d

R Sadeler publishes the first edition of De Christianis apud Japonios triumphis, in Munich

Publication of the French translation of De Christianis apud Japonios triumphis, sive in Paris

S. Cramoisy publishes the the French translation of De Christianis apud Japonios triumphis, sive in Paris

P. Morin translates N. Trigault's De Christianis apud Japonios triumphis, in to French

In Jiangzhou

Founds the Shanxi and Shaanxi mission

Publication of Lettere Annue del Giappone dell’ Anno 1622. E della Cina del 1621 e 1622. Al molto Reu. in Christo P. Mutio Vitelleschi Preposito Generale della Compagnia di Giesù. Milan: 1627

Letter to Florent de Montmorency

Death in Hangzhou by suicide