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|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|526: [[The Eel's henchmen]] report that [[The Uncials]] are selling blackmarket [[scrying engines]].
|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|526: [[The Eel's henchmen]] report that [[The Uncials]] are selling blackmarket [[scrying engines]].
File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1584: Famed illustration ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective [[Leonardo da Vinci]].


||1786 Pierre-Dominique Bazaine born - scientist and engineer.  
||1786 Pierre-Dominique Bazaine born - scientist and engineer.  

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  • 524: The Nika riots in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.

    524: The Nika riots in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.

  • 1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.

    1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.

  • 1876: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

    1876: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

  • 1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred North Whitehead uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred North Whitehead uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1898: Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

    1898: Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

  • 1902: Mathematician Karl Menger born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

    1902: Mathematician Karl Menger born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

  • 1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.

    1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.

  • 1924: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

    1924: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

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