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File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|1223 BC: [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|Solar eclipse]] occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|1223 BC: [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|Solar eclipse]] occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1639: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to translate Ugaritic language.
 
File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1640: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] develops self-awareness, visits [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]].
File:William Oughtred.jpg|link=William Oughtred (nonfiction)|1574: Mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]] born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1640: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] attends lecture by [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]].
 
File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1616: [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]'s book ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
 
File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1827: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
 
File:He_Zehui.jpg|link=He Zehui (nonfiction)|1914: Nuclear physicist and academic [[He Zehui (nonfiction)|He Zehui]] born. He Zehui will contribute to nuclear physics in Germany during World War II, and develop nuclear weapons for China during the 1960s.
 
File:Cthulhu Teaches Typing.jpg|link=Cthulhu Teaches Typing|2022:  Release of '''[[Cthulhu Teaches Typing]]''', an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Cthulhu Teaches Typing is not a game, rather a "system for teaching you how to type while yielding your sanity to the unimaginable terrors of the illimitable beyond".
 
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