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File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1198: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1198: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
||1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet" - King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.


File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born.
File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born.
||1588 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
||1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1581)
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1684: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]]'s derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper ''De motu corporum in gyrum'', is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
||1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1804: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1804: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] born.  She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] born.  She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
File:Bergamot essential oil.jpg|link=Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|1825: [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot essential oil]] gives [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey]] the strength to carry on against all opposition.
 
|File:Bergamot essential oil.jpg|link=Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|1825: [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot essential oil]] gives [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey]] the strength to carry on against all opposition.
 
File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.
File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces new controller units.
 
||1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
 
||1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
 
||1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
 
||1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
 
||1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
 
||1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
 
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], demonstrates new controller units.
 
||1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
 
||1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (b. 1922)
 
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram celebrates the life and work of [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]].
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram celebrates the life and work of [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]].
||2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian soldier and physicist (b. 1925)
||2010 – John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|2014: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|2014: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2016: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] celebrates life and work of [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]].
 
|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2016: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] celebrates life and work of [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]].
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  • 1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

    1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

  • 1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.

    1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.

  • 1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

    1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

  • 1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

    1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

  • 1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

    1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

  • 1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.

    1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.

  • 1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, demonstrates new controller units.

    1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, demonstrates new controller units.

  • 1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.

    1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.

  • 2014: The Eel receives news from informants.

    2014: The Eel receives news from informants.

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