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| Alexis Benoit Soyer | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| October 1809 | Born (Meaux-en-Brie on the Marne, France). | ||
| 1821 | 1826 | Apprentice to a cook at Grignon, near Versailles. | |
| June 1830 | Second cook to Prince Polignac at the foreign office. | ||
| July 1830 | Fled to London after July revolution. | ||
| 1831 | Joined a brother in the kitchen of the Duke of Cambridge in London. | ||
| 1837 | 1850 | Master Cook of the Reform Club, London. | |
| 1847 | Organised relief kitchens in Dublin for famine victims. | ||
| 1853 | Wrote 'The Pantropheon; or, History of Food'. | ||
| 1854 | Wrote 'A Shilling Cookery'. | ||
| 1855 | 3 May 1857 | Organised British army field kitchens in Crimea. | |
| 18?? | Invented 'Soyer Boiler' for field kitchens (illustration). | ||
| 5 August 1858 | Died (London). | ||
| Literature: (DNB; Morris). | |||
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