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||1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
||1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.


||1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
||1567: Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.


File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||Wilhelm Xylander (d. 10 February 1576) was a German classical scholar and humanist. Pic.
||1576: Wilhelm Xylander dies ... classical scholar and humanist. Pic.


File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836)
||1747: Aida Yasuaki born ... mathematician in the Edo period. He made significant contributions to the fields of number theory and geometry, and furthered methods for simplifying continued fractions. Pic.
 
||1785: Claude-Louis Navier born ... physicist and engineer.


||1814: François Coignet born ... industrialist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures.
||1814: François Coignet born ... industrialist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures.


||Per Teodor Cleve (b. 10 February 1840) was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite.
||1840: Per Teodor Cleve born ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite.


||1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (d. 1907)
||1842: Agnes Mary Clerke born ... astronomer and author.


||1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
||1861: Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.


File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] dies.
File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] dies.
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File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] dies.  He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] dies.  He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.


||1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (d. 1927)
||1846: Ira Remsen dies ... chemist and academic.


||1865 – Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804)
||1865: Heinrich Lenz dies ... physicist and academic.


||1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959)
||1883: Edith Clarke born ... electrical engineer.


||1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская), born Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya (1850–1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was the first major Russian female mathematician and a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world.
||1891: Sofia Kovalevskaya dies ...  mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) ... made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was the first major Russian female mathematician and a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world.


||Richard Dagobert Brauer (b. February 10, 1901) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.
||1901: Richard Dagobert Brauer born ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.


||1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
||1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

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