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||1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
||1519: Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.


|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1563: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] spontaneously generates new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]].
||1602: The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.


||1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
||1656: Edmond Halley born ... astronomer and mathematician.
 
||1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)


File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.


||1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician and author (b. 1652)
||1719: Michel Rolle dies ... mathematician and author.


File:Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait.jpg|link=Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician [[Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait]] dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds.
File:Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait.jpg|link=Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician [[Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait]] dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds.


||Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (b. 8 November 1834) was a German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He was also an early psychical investigator. Pic.
||1834: Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner born ... astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He was also an early psychical investigator. Pic.


File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1839: Birth of [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] heralds new age of [[Extreme Moustaches]].
File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1839: Birth of [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] heralds new age of [[Extreme Moustaches]].
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File:Gottlob Frege.jpg|link=Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher [[Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|Gottlob Frege]] born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
File:Gottlob Frege.jpg|link=Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher [[Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|Gottlob Frege]] born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.


||1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919)
||1854: Johannes Rydberg born ... physicist and academic.


||George Peacock (d. 8 November 1858) was an English mathematician.
||1858: George Peacock dies ... mathematician.


||1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
||1861: American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.


||Felix Hausdorff (b. November 8, 1868) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory,[clarification needed] and functional analysis. Pic.
||1868: Felix Hausdorff born ... mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory,[clarification needed] and functional analysis. Pic.


||1878 – Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (d. 1951)
||1878: Dorothea Bate born ... palaeontologist and archaeozoologist.


||Marvin Pipkin (b. November 18, 1889) was an American chemist. During his time in the United States Army he worked on gas masks. In his civilian life he invented a process for frosting the inside of incandescent lamp bulbs to cut down on the sharp glare and diffuse the light. Pic.
||1889: Marvin Pipkin born ... chemist. During his time in the United States Army he worked on gas masks. In his civilian life he invented a process for frosting the inside of incandescent lamp bulbs to cut down on the sharp glare and diffuse the light. Pic.


File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray.
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray.


|File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin.
||1904: William Leonard Edge born ... mathematician most known for his work in finite geometry. In the 1950s Edge began to explore vector spaces over Galois fields as an entry to finite geometry. Points and lines of finite projective geometry arise as lines and planes in these spaces, and the projectivities of these spaces provide representation of some finite groups. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/William+Edge


||William Edward Ayrton, FRS (d. 8 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer.
||1908: William Edward Ayrton dies ... physicist and electrical engineer.


||George Bernard Dantzig (b. November 8, 1914) was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm,[1] an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic.  
||1914: George Bernard Dantzig born ... mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic.  


||1918: Hermann Zapf born ... typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015)
||1918: Hermann Zapf born ... typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015)
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||1997: Menahem Max Schiffer dies ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schiffer.html
||1997: Menahem Max Schiffer dies ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schiffer.html


||2006: Hannspeter Winter dies ... physicist and academic (b. 1941)
||2006: Hannspeter Winter dies ... physicist and academic.


||2004: Melba Newell Phillips dies ... physicist and pioneer science educator.  
||2004: Melba Newell Phillips dies ... physicist and pioneer science educator.  
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||2013: William C. Davidon dies ... physicist, mathematician, and academic.
||2013: William C. Davidon dies ... physicist, mathematician, and academic.


||2015: Rod Davies dies ... astronomer and academic (b. 1930)
||2015: Rod Davies dies ... astronomer and academic.


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