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7,076 records

1780s

1 record

  1. 1783

    1. 1783-09-18

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      Role:

      Leonhard Euler: death.

1790s

1 record

  1. 1797

    1. 1797-08-30

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Mary Shelley — birth (1797-08-30).

1800s

2 records

  1. 1801

    1. 1801-01-01 astronomical discovery

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      Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, the first recognized asteroid and now classified as a dwarf planet.

  2. 1802

    1. 1802 CE Year only solar science

      William Hyde Wollaston noticed dark features in dispersed sunlight.

1810s

3 records

  1. 1815

    1. 1815-12-10

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Ada Lovelace: birth.

  2. 1817

    1. 1817 CE Year only solar science

      Joseph von Fraunhofer labeled and systematically studied dark lines in the solar spectrum.

  3. 1818

    1. 1818-01-01

      Category: Type:

      Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus () by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRole:

      Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus — first publication (1818-01-01).

1820s

2 records

  1. 1827

    1. 1827-02-09 observatory institution

      Category: Type:

      The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society began publication.

  2. 1828

    1. 1828-02-08

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Jules Verne: birth.

1830s

1 record

  1. 1838

    1. 1838 CE Year only astronomy measurement

      Friedrich Bessel measured the distance to 61 Cygni using its annual parallax.

1840s

3 records

  1. 1842

    1. 1842-07-08 solar science

      Francis Baily’s eclipse observations supported interpreting the corona as part of the Sun.

  2. 1843

    1. 1843 CE Year only solar science

      Heinrich Schwabe identified a recurring pattern in sunspot numbers after years of observation.

  3. 1846

    1. 1846-09-23 astronomical discovery

      Category: Type:

      Johann Galle observed Neptune after its position had been predicted from planetary-motion calculations.

1850s

3 records

  1. 1851

    1. 1851-02-01

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Mary Shelley — death (1851-02-01).

  2. 1852

    1. 1852-11-27

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Ada Lovelace: death.

  3. 1859

    1. 1859-09-01 solar science

      Richard Carrington observed a white-light solar flare preceding an intense geomagnetic storm.

1860s

4 records

  1. 1864

    1. 1864 CE Year only astronomy theory

      Maxwell’s equations described electromagnetism and provided a basis for understanding astronomical radiation.

  2. 1865

    1. 1865-09-14

      Category: Type:

      From the Earth to the Moon () by Jules Verne

      From the Earth to the Moon: publication.

  3. 1866

    1. 1866-09-21

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      H. G. Wells: birth.

  4. 1869

    1. 1869-11-04

      Category: Type:

      Around the Moon () by Jules Verne

      Around the Moon: publication.

1880s

3 records

  1. 1882

    1. 1882-03-23

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Emmy Noether: birth.

  2. 1884

    1. 1884-08-16

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Hugo Gernsback: birth.

  3. 1888

    1. 1888-01-01

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Chesley Bonestell: birth.

1890s

5 records

  1. 1895

    1. 1895 Year only

      Category: Type:

      The Time Machine () by H. G. Wells

      The Time Machine: publication.

    2. 1895-11-08 astronomy instrument

      Category: Type:

      Wilhelm Röntgen detected penetrating radiation later fundamental to high-energy astronomy.

  2. 1897

    1. 1897-04 Month only

      Category: Type:

      The War of the Worlds () by H. G. Wells

      The War of the Worlds: publication.

  3. 1899

    1. 1899 CE Year only observatory institution

      Astronomers founded the American Astronomical Society at a meeting at Yerkes Observatory.

    2. 1899-10-19 rocketry history

      Robert Goddard later associated a childhood experience in a cherry tree with his interest in spaceflight.

1900s

6 records

  1. 1900

    1. 1900-11 Month only

      Category: Type:

      The First Men in the Moon () by H. G. Wells

      The First Men in the Moon: publication.

  2. 1905

    1. 1905-03-24

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Jules Verne: death.

  3. 1906

    1. 1906-10-07

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      James E. Webb — birth (1906-10-07).

  4. 1907

    1. 1907-01-12

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Sergei Korolev: birth.

    2. 1907-07-07

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Robert A. Heinlein: birth.

  5. 1908

    1. 1908-06-30 impact event

      Category: Type:

      A large atmospheric explosion devastated forest near the Stony Tunguska River in Siberia.

1910s

7 records

  1. 1910

    1. 1910-06-08

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      John W. Campbell Jr.: birth.

    2. 1910-09-20

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Dorothy Vaughan — birth (1910-09-20).

  2. 1912

    1. 1912-03-23

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Wernher von Braun: birth.

    2. 1912-06-23

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Alan Turing: birth.

  3. 1917

    1. 1917-12-16

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Arthur C. Clarke — birth (1917-12-16).

  4. 1918

    1. 1918-08-26

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Katherine Johnson — birth (1918-08-26).

  5. 1919

    1. 1919-05-29 astronomy measurement

      Eclipse expeditions measured starlight deflection near the Sun, testing Einstein’s general relativity.

1920s

9 records

  1. 1920

    1. 1920-04-26 astronomy theory

      Category: Type:

      Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis debated the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.

    2. 1920-08-22

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Ray Bradbury: birth.

    3. 1920-10-08

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Frank Herbert: birth.

  2. 1921

    1. 1921-04-09

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Mary W. Jackson — birth (1921-04-09).

    2. 1921-08-19

      Category: Type:

      Role: ,

      Gene Roddenberry: birth.

    3. 1921-09-12

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Stanisław Lem: birth.

  3. 1926

    1. 1926-03-16 rocketry history

      Category: Type:

      Robert Goddard flew his first successful liquid-propellant rocket.

  4. 1928

    1. 1928-12-16

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Philip K. Dick: birth.

  5. 1929

    1. 1929-10-21

      Category: Type:

      Role:

      Ursula K. Le Guin — birth (1929-10-21).

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