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Johannes Kepler
Stereometrica Doliorum formed basis for intergral calculus
Johannes Kepler
Astronomia pars Optica: Explains refraction in eye, formulated glasses for near/ farsightedness
Johannes Kepler
Laws of Planetary Motion introduced
Johannes Kepler
Dioptrice: Discovered properties of internal reflection; how a telescope works, explained how lenses work
King Louis IV
Founded French Academy of Science
Sir Isaac Newton
Newton's Principia published
Thomas Savery
Savery pump (pumped water from mines)
Thomas Newcomen
Newcomen atmospheric engine (better than Savery)
Denis Dedirot
Publisishing of Encyclope'die
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mécanique analytique
Samuel Slater
America's 1st water-powered cotton spinning mill
Carl Gauss
Gauss publishes his "Fundamental Theory of Algebra"
Thomas Moore
invention of the icebox refrigerator
Carl Gauss
Gauss publishes Disquisitiones Arithmeticae; proves number theory/ algebra of congruences
Francis Ronalds
First Working Systems of Electrical telegraph
Thomas Young
Propose Transverse Waves
Joseph Fourier
Fourier publishes Théorie analytique de la chaleur (Analytical theory of heat)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's 9th Symphony is completed
Nicéphore Niépce
First photograph
Georg Simon Ohm
The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically
George Green
George Green publishes his "Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism," setting the foundation for future physicits to work from.
Robert Peel
Peel's Metropolitan Police Act 1829 passed
Michael Faraday
Faraday begins a series of experiements that lay out the principle of electromagnetism.
Jacob Perkins
First Refrigerator
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Hamilton's equations of motion
Chiristian Doppler
Propose of Doppler Effect
John James Waterston
Equipartition theorem is proposed
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre
Levi Hill
Early experimentation with colored photographs
Bernhard Riemann
Riemman delievers lecture on non-Euclidean geometry
Bernhard Riemann
Riemann starts lecturing on the topic of his curved geometry, with lays the mathematical foundation for later General Relativity.
Charles Darwin
Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
J. J. Étienne Lenoir
First effective gas-powered internal combustion engine
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations published
Louis Pasteur
Pasteurization first used to eliminate pathogens in food/beverage
Joseph Lister
Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery published
Lothar Meyer
Modern Periodic table layout
M.B. Leavitt
The phrase vaudville is coined for exhibition genre
Ludwig Boltzmann
Boltzmann statistic; Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
Karl Friedrich Benz
First gasoline powered automobile
Gottlieb Daimler
Prototype of the modern gas engine
William Stanley
First AC Generator
W.C. Roentgen
Discovery of the X-Ray
Max Skladanowsky
First film
Sigmund Freud
Studies in Hysteria published
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
X rays discovered
Henri Becquerel
Discovery of radioactivity
Karl Braun
Invention of cathode ray tube
William McKinley
Spanish-American War
Ernest Rutherford
Rutherford performs gold foil experiment, proving the existence of the atomic nucleus, and by extension suggesting the existence of the strong nuclear force.
D. W. Griffith
"The Birth of a Nation" released, first blockbuster film
English civil war
Louis XIV
King of France
Charles II
King of Englnd
James II
King of Englnd
James Watt
Watt atmospheric engine (better than Newcomen)
Industrial Revolution
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturnes
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria in Power (United Kingdom)
James W. Marshall
California Gold Rush
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln in office
Monet, Manet, Sisley, Morisot, Degas
Impressionist movement in art
World War I