Today in Isaac Newton History

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Historical Events

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1642-01-11 - Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1661-06-05 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1668-07-07 - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1672-02-08 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1684-12-10 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1686-04-28 - 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
1687-07-05 - Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
1697-01-26 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1705-04-16 - Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1967-12-01 - Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope

Famous Birthdays

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1643-01-04 - Isaac Newton, Grantham England, physicist, mathematician and astronomer ("Whatever goes up must come down") [NS]

Famous Deaths

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0034-04-23 - Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton
1727-03-31 - Isaac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84


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