Eighty Years' War (Age: 9 years before birth, Period: 1578–1581, Location: Various parts of the Low Countries, Spanish Netherlands, Dutch Republic, etc.)

Birth of William Keeling (Period: c. 1577 (exact date and place of birth unknown), Location: Unknown)

Dutch–Portuguese War (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1601–1663, Location: Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, etc.)

Depletion of Crew during the 1604 Second Voyage of the East India Company (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1604–1606, Location: Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia region)

Participation in the Second Voyage of the East India Company (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1604–1606, Location: Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia)

Command of the Third Voyage of the East India Company (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1607–1610, Location: Sierra Leone, Cape of Good Hope, Socotra, Java, Sumatra, Banda Islands, etc.)

Record of Shakespearean Play Performances during the Voyage (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1607–1608, Location: Off Sierra Leone, around Socotra, etc.)

Audience with Envoys from the Ayutthaya Kingdom (William Keeling, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1608, Location: Banten (Present-day Banten Province, Indonesia))

Attempted Establishment of Trading Posts in the Banda Islands (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1609, Location: Banda Islands (Present-day Maluku, Indonesia))

Discovery of the Cocos Islands (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1609, Location: Indian Ocean, Cocos Islands)

Conferment of Court Position by King James I (William Keeling, Age: 33 years old, Period: Around 1610, Location: London (England))

1615 East India Company Voyage (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1615–1617, Location: West Coast of India, around Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Java, etc.)

Grant of Authority to Use Force by the East India Company (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1615, Location: Voyage Regions of the East India Company)

Marriage (William Keeling, Ann, Age: 38 years old, Period: Before 1615, Location: Unknown)

Appointment as Captain of Cowes Castle (William Keeling, Age: 41 years old, Period: Around 1618, Location: Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight (England))

Death of William Keeling (Age: 43 years old, Period: c. 1620 (English Wikipedia states September 19, 1619 in its lead, whereas the body text states he died at Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight in 1620, reflecting discrepancies among sources))