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 {| |width="15%"|1842 |width="85%"| |- | valign="top" |January 12 |Arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands. |- | valign="top" |February 19 |Arrived at Singapore. |- | valign="top" |April 14 |Arrived at Cape Town, South Africa. |- | valign="top" |June 10 |Exploring Expedition arrived at New York. |- | valign="top" |June 15 |Requested court martial for several members of the Exploring Expedition and a court of inquiry into his own conduct. |- | valign="top" |July 20 |Ordered to New York to stand trial before a court martial. |- | valign="top" |August 26 |Asked by the Joint Library Committee of Congress to prepare a history of Exploring Expedition. |- | valign="top" |September 7 |Found guilty by court martial of illegal punishment and sentenced to a public reprimand by the Secretary of the Navy. |- |1843 | |- | valign="top" |July 13 |Promoted to Commander. |- | valign="top" |August 1 |Placed in charge of Exploring Expedition collections and reports. |- |1845 | |- | valign="top" |April 16 |First volumes of Exploring Expedition Narrative distributed. |- |1846 | |- | valign="top" |May 13 |Request for active service in the Mexican War refused "till your present service is accomplished." |- |1848 | |- | valign="top" |May 22 |Awarded Founder's Medal by the Royal Geographic Society of London. |- | valign="top" |August 11 |Jane Renwick Wilkes died at Newport. |- |1853 | |- | valign="top" |December 20 |Fire in Philadelphia destroyed copper plates for engravings for Exploring Expedition volumes. |- |1854 | |- | valign="top" |October 3 |Married Mary Lynch Bolton. |- |1855 | |- | valign="top" |September 14 |Promoted to Captain. |- |1858 | |- | valign="top" |July 21 |Ordered by the Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey to examine natural resources—iron, coal, timber—of
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