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||AD 98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
||AD 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.


||1302 – Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.
||1302: Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.


||1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
||1343: Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.


File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.


||1596 – Francis Drake, English captain and explorer (b. 1540)
||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer.


||1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (d. 1753)
||1687: Johann Balthasar Neumann born ... engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.


||1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the Piano (b. 1655)
||1731: Bartolomeo Cristofori dies ... instrument maker, invented the Piano.


||1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
||1785: The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.


||1795 – Eli Whitney Blake, American engineer, invented the Mortise lock (d. 1886)
||1795: Eli Whitney Blake born ... engineer, invented the Mortise lock.


||Charles Hutton FRS FRSE LLD (d. 27 January 1823) was an English mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion.
||1823: Charles Hutton dies ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion.


File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] born. He will write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] born. He will write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
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File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.


||Heinrich Rose (d. 27 January 1864) was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist.  
||1864: Heinrich Rose dies ... mineralogist and analytical chemist.  


||Adam Sedgwick (d. 27 January 1873) was a British geologist, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale.
||Adam Sedgwick (d. 27 January 1873) was a British geologist, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale.


||1880 – Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.


||1889 – Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1959) Pic.
||1887: Carl Blegen born ... archaeologist who unearthed evidence that supported and dated the sack of Troy recorded in Homer's Iliad. Storage jars, skeletons and ash piles (which he interpreted as evidence of the city's fiery destruction) reinforced his conviction. He also discovered, in 1939, clay tablets dating from about 1250 BC. At the fabled palace of King Nestor, a major figure in the Trojan War, nearly 1,100 clay tablet records of palace transactions were found there over 15 years. These were inscribed with the earliest known examples of European writing, enabling cryptographers to find the key by which the ancient tablets could be decoded, proving the existence of a Greek civilization where none was formerly thought to exist. Pic.


||Sir James Cockle (d. 27 January 1895) was an English lawyer and mathematician. He invented the number systems of tessarines and coquaternions, and worked with Arthur Cayley on the theory of linear algebra. Pic.
||1889: Balthasar van der Pol born ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||Erich Ernest Zepler (b. 27 January 1898), later known as Eric, was a German-born electronics expert and chess problem composer. Pic.
||1895: James Cockle dies ... lawyer and mathematician. He invented the number systems of tessarines and coquaternions, and worked with Arthur Cayley on the theory of linear algebra. Pic.


||Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (b. 1903) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle.
||1898: Erich Ernest Zepler born ... electronics expert and chess problem composer. Pic.


||Sir John Carew Eccles (b. 27 January 1903) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
||1903: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson born ... mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle.


||1912 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher and environmentalist (d. 2009)
||1903: John Carew Eccles born ... neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.


||1912 – Francis Rogallo, American engineer, invented the Rogallo wing (d. 2009)
||1912: Arne Næss born ... philosopher and environmentalist.


||Johannes Frischauf (d. 7 January 1924 in Graz) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist.
||1912: Francis Rogallo born ... engineer, invented the Rogallo wing.


||Leo Breiman (b. January 27, 1928) was a distinguished statistician. His work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Pic.
||1924: Johannes Frischauf dies ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist.


||1941 – Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1981)
||1928: Leo Breiman born ... statistician. His work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Pic.


||James Victor Uspensky (d. January 27, 1947) was a Russian mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''.
||1941: Beatrice Tinsley born ... astronomer and cosmologist.
 
||1947: James Victor Uspensky dies ... mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''.


File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] uses point-set topology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] uses point-set topology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
||1951: Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.


||1961 – The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
||1961: The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.


||1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
||1967: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.


||1967 – United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
||1967: United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.


File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.
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File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1972: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to counteract the effects of crimes against [[Poem|poetry]].
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1972: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to counteract the effects of crimes against [[Poem|poetry]].


||1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
||1973: The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
 
||Raphael Mitchel Robinson (d. January 27, 1995) was an American mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.


|File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|2004: Goethe's [[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] used in new form of [[Gnomon algorithm function]].
||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.


File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.


||2015 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
||2015: Charles Hard Townes dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2017 – Arthur H. Rosenfeld, American physicist (b. 1926) Pic.
||2017: Arthur H. Rosenfeld dies ... physicist. Pic.


File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' unexpectedly reveals "more than a terabyte" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' unexpectedly reveals "more than a terabyte" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


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  • 1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

    1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

  • 1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

    1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

  • 1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

    1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

    1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

  • 1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

    1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

  • 1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.

    1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.

  • 2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of Green Spiral 9 unexpectedly reveals "more than a terabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of Green Spiral 9 unexpectedly reveals "more than a terabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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