respectorcist: (mulder)
if anyone asks this is educational ([personal profile] respectorcist) wrote2012-06-29 09:55 pm

ONWARD AND OUTWARD

307 BC - Museum and Library of Alexandria completed

105 AD - Cai Lun invents pulp paper-making process

990 AD - first systematic musical notation

1088 AD - Bi Sheng invents movable type

1119 AD - Bologna University founded

1151 AD - popularization of chess in England

1235 AD - Notre Dame opens

1440 AD - Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press

1486 AD - Pico della Mirandola writes Oration on Dignity of Man

1513 AD - Machiavelli's The Prince

1549 AD - documented inoculation against smallpox in China

1608 AD - Galileo's astronomical telescope

1619 AD - Harvey's discovery of the circulation of blood

1638 AD - abolition of torture in England

1665 AD - Newton's differential calculus

1681 AD - establishment of Greenwich Observatory

1704 AD - Newton's Optics

1776 AD - drafting of the Declaration of Independence

1781 AD - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

1788 AD - Mozart's final three symphonies

1822 AD - Mendel founds science of genetics

1845 AD - speed of light measured

1859 AD - Darwin's Origin of Species

1878 AD - Pasteur's lecture on germ theory

1884 AD - steam turbine invented

1891 AD - first manned flight by Otto Lilienthal

1916 AD - Einstein's Relativity

1989 AD - Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposes the internet

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