Short answers, pulled from the story.
Arthur Evans entered the world on the 8th of July 1851 at Nash Mills in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. His family lived in a brick terraced house known locally as the red house before moving into her childhood home in 1856.
Ottoman authorities expelled him from Pljevlja on the 15th of August 1875 during the Herzegovina uprising after he and his brother Lewis planned to spy against Montenegro. They were detained in Slavonski Brod when Austro-Hungarian officers suspected them of being Russian spies until Dr Makanetz secured their release.
Margaret Freeman died on the 11th of March 1893 in Alassio Italy leaving him with emotional devastation that changed the course of his life forever. He never married again and wrote on black-bordered stationery for the rest of his days.
Arthur Evans began excavating the flower-covered hill at Knossos on Crete in March 1900. He concluded another civilization existed on Crete before those brought to light by Heinrich Schliemann at Mycenae and dubbed this civilization the Minoan civilisation after King Minos.
Evans found three thousand clay tablets which he transcribed into Scripta Minoa and perceived two different mutually exclusive writing systems later termed Linear A and Linear B. Linear B turned out to be Greek despite decades of theories while Linear A remains undeciphered.