Timeline: Science
| Years: c. 13.7 billion years ago - 2011 | Subject: Science and technology |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191737299 |
| Year | Event |
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| c. 13.7 billion years ago | Go to Big Bang in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to atom in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 13 billion years ago | Go to cosmic abundance of elements in A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.6 billion years ago | Go to Milky Way in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to sun in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.5 billion years ago | Go to structure of the Earth in Visual English Dictionary (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4 billion years ago | Go to structure of the Earth in Visual English Dictionary (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3.5 billion years ago | Go to bacteria in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3 billion years ago | Go to endosymbiont theory in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1 billion years ago | Go to Ediacaran fossils in A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 500 million years ago | Go to Ordovician in A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 400 million years ago | Go to Psilophytales in A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 350 million years ago | Go to insects in The Oxford Companion to the Earth (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 340 million years ago | Go to Amphibia in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 300 million years ago | Go to Reptilia in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 250 million years ago | |
| c. 225 million years ago | Go to dinosaur in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 200 million years ago | Go to continental drift in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) |
| c. 170 million years ago | |
| c. 150 million years ago | Go to Archaeopteryx in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 125 million years ago | Go to Archaeopteryx in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 65 million years ago | Go to dinosaur in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 50 million years ago | Go to Gondwanaland in The Oxford Companion to Australian History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 45 million years ago | Go to Primates in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 15 million years ago | Go to Simiiformes in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 6 million years ago | Go to Paranthropus in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.5 million years ago | Go to hominid in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.4 million years ago | Go to Ardi in New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3.6 million years old | Go to Australopithecus in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3.2 million years ago | Go to Australopithecine in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.6 million to 14,000 years ago | Go to Palaeolithic in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.6 to 1.2 million years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Paranthropus in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.5 million years ago | Go to hominid in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.2 million years ago | Go to Homo in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.2 to 1.4 million years ago | Go to Homo habilis in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1.85 million years ago | Go to Homo habilis in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1.8 million years ago | Go to Homo erectus in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1.7 million years ago | Go to Homo erectus in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1.6 million years ago | Go to Homo erectus in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1 million years ago | Go to Speech in Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 500,000 years ago | Go to Zhoukoudian in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zhoukoudian, China in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 250,000 years ago | Go to spearhead in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 230,000 years ago | Go to Homo sapiens in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 150,000 years ago | Go to Homo sapiens in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 130,000 years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 120,000 to 35,000 years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 90,000 years ago | Go to Homo sapiens in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 77,000 years ago | Go to Speech in Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 60,000 years ago | Go to Pacific Islands in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 50,000 to 30,000 years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 45,000 years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 35,000 years ago | Go to hunter‐gatherers in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Venus figurine in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 35,000 to 14,000 years ago | Go to Palaeolithic in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 31,000 years ago | Go to cave art in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 30,000 years ago | Go to Bering land bridge in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to cave art in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 29,000 years ago | In the Cosquer cave near Marseilles, with its entrance now far below sea level, a hand print is made Go to marine and underwater archaeology in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 27,000 years ago | Go to unenclosed settlement in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 25,000 years ago | Go to ‘Venus of Willendorf’ in The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to unenclosed settlement in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 24,000 years ago | Go to unenclosed settlement in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 23,000 years ago | Go to Mal'ta, Siberia, Russia in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 18,000 years ago | |
| c. 16,000 years ago | Go to Lascaux, France in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 15,000 years ago | Go to Palaeo‐Indian in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Magdalenian in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 14,000 to 10,000 years ago | Go to Mesolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 12,000 years ago | Go to Mesolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 8000 BCE | Go to Neolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ali Kosh, Iran in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jarmo, Iraq in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jericho in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to spindle whorl in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jomon in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 7000 BCE | Go to copper in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 6500 BCE | Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Khirokitia in The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 5800 BCE | Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 5000 BCE | Go to Tehuacán Valley, Mexico in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4400 BCE | Go to weaving in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 3761 BCE | Go to Jewish in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2781 BCE | Go to Sothic cycle in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2500 BCE | Go to Mohenjo-Daro in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2000 BCE | Go to Knossos in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Disease in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1750 BCE | Go to Scribes in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Babylonia in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to place value notation in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1300 BCE | Go to Mycenaean civilization in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1100 BCE | Go to Pole Star in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 753 BCE | Go to calendar, Roman in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 585 BCE | Go to Thales of Miletus (fl. 585 bc) in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 570 BCE | Go to Anaximander (611–c.547 bc) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 550 BCE | Go to zodiac in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sushruta in A-Z of Plastic Surgery (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Āyurveda in A Dictionary of Hinduism (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 529 BCE | Go to Pythagoras (c.580–500 bc) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 510 BCE | Go to Hecataeus in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 500 BCE | Go to magnetite in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to amber in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 450 BCE | Go to Empedocles of Acragas (c.495–c.435 bc) in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Philolāus in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 420 BCE | Go to atomism in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 400 BCE | Go to Hippocrates in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 380 BCE | Go to four humours in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 350 BCE | Go to Eudoxus of Cnidus (c.400 bc–350 bc) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 330 BCE | Go to Aristotle (384–322 bc) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 300 BCE | The Greek author Theophrastus writes On the History of Plants, the earliest surviving work on botany Go to Theophrastus (c. 372 bc–287 bc) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mafia [Crime] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Epicureanism in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 280 BCE | The Alexandrian school of medicine develops an alarming form of clinical anatomy – human vivisection Go to Herophilus in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 270 BCE | Go to Aristarchus of Samos (c.320–c.250 bc) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 250 BCE | Go to Archimedes' principle in A New Dictionary of Eponyms (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to alchemy in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Berruguete, Alonso (c.1488–1561) in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Roman numeral in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 220 BCE | Go to Eratosthenes of Cyrene (275–195bc ) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 140 BCE | Go to Hipparchus of Nicaea (c.190–c.120 bc) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 130 BCE | Go to precession of the equinoxes in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hipparchus of Nicaea (c.190–c.120 bc) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 129 BCE | Go to Hipparchus of Nicaea (c.190–c.120 bc) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 100 BCE | Go to Acupuncture in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 50 BCE | Go to Maya in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Maya in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 45 BCE | Go to calendar, Roman in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| CE 1 | Go to Anno Domini in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 50 | Go to Cornelius Celsus, Aulus in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 150 | Go to Ptolemy (130–75) in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 158 | Go to Galen (ad 129–199) in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 800 | Go to mathematics in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 801 | Go to Abbas I (1571–1629) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 921 | Go to Jewish in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 950 | Go to Italy in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1000 | Go to Cordoba in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1040 | |
| 1054 | Go to Crab Nebula in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1066 | Go to Halley's Comet (1P/Halley) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1489 | Go to Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1500 | Go to Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1530 | Go to Brunfels, Otto (c.1489–1534) in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1543 | Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus publishes a book suggesting that the earth moves round the sun Go to Deep Space 1 in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: See this event in other timelines: |
| 1545 | Go to Paré, Ambroise (c.1510–90) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1560 | Go to physic garden noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1576 | Go to Brahe, Tycho (1546–1601) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1582 | Go to Gregorian calendar in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1596 | Go to Brahe, Tycho (1546–1601) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bauhin, Gaspard (1550–1624) in A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1600 | Go to magnetic pole in A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Gilbert, William (1540–1613) in A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1609 | Go to Kepler, Johannes (1571–1630) in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1610 | Go to Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1613 | Go to Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1620 | Go to Bacon, Francis (1561–1626) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1628 | Go to Harvey, William (1578–1657) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1632 | Go to Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1638 | Go to Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1646 | Go to Pascal, Blaise (1623–1662) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1648 | Go to Helmont, Jan Baptista van (1579–1644) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1654 | Go to Guericke, Otto von (1602–1686) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1655 | Go to Huygens, Christiaan (1629–95) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1658 | Go to Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1661 | Go to Malpighi, Marcello in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1662 | Go to Boyle, Robert (1627–92) in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Royal Society in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1665 | Go to Royal Society in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1667 | Go to transfusion in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1672 | Go to Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625–1712) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 1676 | Go to Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625–1712) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 1678 | Go to Huygens, Christiaan (1629–95) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1680 | Go to Halley, Edmund (1656–1742) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1686 | Go to Ray, John (1607–1705) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1687 | Go to Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1702 | Go to phlogiston theory in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1714 | Go to Fahrenheit, (Gabriel) Daniel (1686–1736) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1717 | Go to Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1735 | Go to Linnaeus, Carolus (1707–78) in A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Brandt, Georg (1694–1768) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1742 | Go to Celsius, Anders (1701–1744) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1745 | Go to Leyden jar in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1751 | Go to nickel in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1752 | Go to midwifery in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Franklin, Benjamin (1706–90) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1754 | Go to Black, Joseph (1728–99) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1758 | Go to Halley, Edmund (1656–1742) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1761 | Go to Black, Joseph (1728–99) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to percussion n. in A Dictionary of Nursing (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to pathology in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1766 | Go to Cavendish, Henry (1731–1810) in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1769 | Go to Cook, James (1728–79) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1773 | Go to Scheele, Carl Wilhelm in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1774 | Go to Priestley, Joseph in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1775 | Go to Cook, James (1728–79) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1781 | Go to Herschel, (Frederick) William (1738–1822) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1784 | Go to Franklin, Benjamin (1706–90) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1785 | Go to Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736–1806) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hutton, James (1726–97) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Withering, William (1741–99) in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1787 | Go to Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743–1794) in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1796 | Go to Jenner, Edward (1749–1823) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de (1749–1827) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hahnemann, Samuel (1755–1843) in A Dictionary of Dentistry (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1799 | Go to Rosetta stone in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Smith, William in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1800 | Go to Volta, Alessandro in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1803 | Go to Dalton, John (1766–1844) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Dalton, John (1766–1844) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1807 | Go to Davy, Sir Humphry in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1809 | Go to Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778–1850) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1811 | Go to Anning, Mary (1799–1847) in A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Avogadro's law in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1812 | Go to Cuvier, Georges, Baron (1769–1832) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1816 | Go to Laënnec, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781–1826) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1817 | Go to Fraunhofer, Joseph von (1787–1826) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1820 | Go to Ampère, André Marie (1775–1836) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1821 | Go to Fresnel, Augustin Jean (1788–1827) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1822 | Go to Champollion, Jean-François in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1827 | Go to Ohm, Georg Simon (1787–1854) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1828 | Go to Burke and Hare [Crime] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1831 | Go to Beagle, HMS in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1832 | Go to Faraday, Michael (1791–1867) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Babbage, Charles (1791–1871) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to cholera in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1835 | Go to Dujardin, Félix (1801–1860) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1836 | Go to Beagle, HMS in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807–1873) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1840 | Go to Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807–1873) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1842 | Go to Doppler, Christian Johann (1803–1853) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1843 | Go to Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807–1873) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1845 | Go to Nimrud, Iraq in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1846 | Go to Morton, William Thomas Green (1819–1868) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1847 | Go to Simpson, Sir James Young in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Boole, George (1815–1864) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1848 | Go to Kelvin, 1st Baron in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1851 | Go to Apiculture in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821–1894) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Foucault's pendulum in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1852 | Go to Thomson, Sir William (1824–1907) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1853 | Go to Nineveh in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to hypodermic syringe in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1854 | Go to Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822–84) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to quinine in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Snow, John (1813–1858) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1855 | Go to Black British literature in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1856 | Go to Neanderthal man in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Perkin, Sir William Henry in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1857 | Go to Elysium in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1858 | Go to Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1859 | Go to Darwin, Charles (1809–82) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1860 | Go to Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1861 | Go to Crookes, Sir William in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to puerperal sepsis in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1862 | Go to pasteurization in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1864 | Go to Maxwell's equations in A New Dictionary of Eponyms (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1865 | Go to Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822–84) in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Lister, Joseph (1827–1912) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1867 | Go to Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (1833–1896) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1869 | Go to periodic table in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1871 | Go to Morgan, Lewis Henry (1818–81) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1875 | Go to Przewalski's horse in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to measles in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1878 | Go to Crookes, Sir William (1832–1919) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1882 | Go to Koch, Robert (1843–1910) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1883 | Go to eugenics in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1884 | Go to prime meridian in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Frege, (Friedrich Ludwig) Gottlob (1848–1925) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1885 | Go to rabies virus vaccines in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1887 | Go to Fick, Adolf Eugen (1829–1921) in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1894 | Go to Lowell, Percival (1855–1916) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to argon in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1895 | Go to Ramsay, Sir William (1852–1916) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to X-rays in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1896 | Go to Becquerel, Antoine Henri (1852–1908) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1897 | Go to Thomson, Sir Joseph John (1856–1940) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ross, Ronald (1857–1932) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1898 | Go to krypton in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to neon in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to xenon in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to polonium in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to radium in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1900 | Go to aspirin n. in A Dictionary of Psychology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to quantum theory in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849–1936) in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1901 | Go to Muybridge, Eadweard (1830–1904) in The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hammurabi, Code of in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1902 | Go to Heaviside, Oliver (1850–1925) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1903 | Go to radiotherapy in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849–1936) in A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to half-life in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Einthoven, Willem (1860–1927) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1904 | Go to Chichén Itzá in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1905 | Go to photoelectric effect in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to syphilis in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to special theory of relativity in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to mental age n. in A Dictionary of Psychology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Starling, Ernest Henry (1866–1927) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to special theory of relativity in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1906 | Go to Bateson, William (1861–1926) in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to isotope in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Wasserman reaction in Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bordet, Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent (1870–1961) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to allergy in Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to thermodynamics, laws of in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Alzheimer's disease in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1907 | Go to tuberculosis in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Homo in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1908 | Go to Geiger counter in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1909 | Go to Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri (1866–1936) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Millikan's oil-drop experiment in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Landsteiner, Karl (1868–1943) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1910 | Go to sickle cell anaemia in A Dictionary of Biomedicine (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Morgan, Thomas Hunt (1866–1945) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1911 | Go to Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees (1869–1959) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rutherford, Ernest (1871–1937) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Adler, Alfred (1870–1937) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1912 | Go to Piltdown, Sussex, England in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to continental drift in A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1913 | Go to Einstein, Albert (b. 14 Mar. 1879) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Holmes, Arthur (1890–1965) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to X-ray crystallography in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to ozone layer in A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bohr, Niels Hendrik David (1885–1962) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Soddy, Frederick (1877–1956) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys (1887–1915) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1914 | Go to Passenger Pigeon in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1915 | Go to Proxima Centauri in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Typhoid Mary in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to relativity in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Serbia in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 1918 | Go to Influenza in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1920 | See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1921 | Go to Indus Valley civilization in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Adler, Alfred (1870–1937) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1922 | Go to Pauling, Linus Carl (1901–1994) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Carter, Howard (1873–1939) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (1891–1941) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1923 | Go to Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1924 | Go to Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889–1953) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1925 | Go to Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901–1976) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pauli, Wolfgang (1900–1958) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Evolution and Creation Science in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1926 | Go to Lindblad, Bertil (1895–1965) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley (1882–1944) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1927 | Go to Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard (1880–1960) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to uncertainty principle in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Homo erectus in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1928 | Go to Ellis, Henry Havelock (1859–1939) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: See this event in other timelines: Go to Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881–1955) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mead, Margaret (1901–1978) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1929 | Go to Hubble's law in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1930 | Go to Pauli, Wolfgang (1900–1958) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902–1984) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1931 | Go to Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1932 | Go to fission, nuclear in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to neutron in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tuskegee Experiment. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1934 | Go to Joliot-Curie, Irène (1897–1956) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1935 | Go to Richter scale in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (1903–1989) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1936 | Go to Turing, Alan Mathison (1912–54) in A Dictionary of Statistics (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1937 | Go to Krebs cycle in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Turing machine in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Perutz, Max Ferdinand (1914–2002) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1938 | Go to iron lung in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1939 | Go to fission, nuclear in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pauling, Linus Carl (1901–1994) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Einstein, Albert (1879–1955) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Turing, Alan (1912–54) in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1940 | Go to penicillin in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander (1892–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Lascaux, France in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1942 | Go to Mildenhall treasure in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Manhattan Project in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Fermi, Enrico (1901–54) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1943 | Colossus Mark I, the world's first computer, goes into decoding service at Bletchley Park in Britain Go to Colossus in A Dictionary of Computing (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1945 | Go to Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910–1994) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nuclear Weapons. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hiroshima in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1946 | Go to Bikini atoll in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1947 | Go to Gabor, Dennis (1900–1979) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Dead Sea Scrolls in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to transistor in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1948 | Go to Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894–1956) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Wiener, Norbert (1894–1964) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hoyle, Fred (1915–2001) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Palomar Observatory in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Skinner box in The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1949 | Go to Pazyryk, Siberia, Russia in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Joe One in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982) in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908–2009) in Dictionary of the Social Sciences (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Libby, Willard Frank (1908–1980) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1950 | Go to Teller, Edward (1908–2003) in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tollund, Denmark in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Doll, Sir Richard Shaboe (1912–2005) in A Dictionary of Statistics (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1951 | Go to Djerassi, Carl (1923–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to hydrogen bomb in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1952 | Go to Franklin, Rosalind (1920–1958) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Linear B in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1953 | Go to Salk, Jonas Edward (1914–1995) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kinsey Reports in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to nuclear bomb in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Piltdown, Sussex, England in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to double helix in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1955 | Go to Phidias (c.430 bc) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1957 | Go to Fowler, William Alfred (1911–1995) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Chomsky, Noam Avram (1928– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sputnik in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to NASA in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sputnik in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1959 | Go to Luna in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903–1972) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Luna in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Luna in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1960 | Go to Birth Control and Family Planning. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1961 | Go to Gagarin, Yuri Alexeyevich (1934–68) in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: US astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, with a suborbital flight in Freedom 7 Go to Shepard, Alan Bartlett (1923–98) in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to thalidomide in The Oxford Companion to the Body (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kennedy, John F. (1917–63) in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1962 | Go to Charnley, Sir John (1911–1982) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1963 | Go to Carson, Rachel (1907–1964) in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna (1937– ) in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1964 | Go to Homo habilis in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Penzias, Arno Allan (1933–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to cardiothoracic surgery in The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1965 | Go to Leonov, Aleksei Arkhipovich (1934– ) in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1966 | Go to Luna in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to plate tectonics in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Luna in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1967 | Go to Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn (1943–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Barnard, Christiaan Neethling (1922–2001) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1968 | Go to Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Apollo project in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Apollo project in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1969 | Go to Armstrong, Neil Alden (1930–2012) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to rock art in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to in vitro fertilization in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1971 | Go to Salyut in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to lunar roving vehicle in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1972 | Go to Tuskegee Experiment. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1974 | Go to Hawking, Stephen William (1943– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sian in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: See this event in other timelines: |
| 1975 | Go to Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1976 | Go to Leakey, Mary (1913–1996) in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Viking in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Viking in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1977 | Go to Vergina, Macedonia, Greece in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1978 | Go to in vitro fertilization in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1979 | Go to smallpox in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1981 | Go to AIDS in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1982 | Go to Windover, Florida, USA in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1983 | Go to Montagnier, Luc (1932–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1984 | Go to Hominid Evolution in Encyclopedia of Evolution (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Jeffreys, Sir Alec John (1950–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1985 | Go to Human Genome Project in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1986 | Go to Challenger in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mir in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to zidovudine in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to bovine spongiform encephalopathy in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1988 | Go to Hawking, Stephen William (1943– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1989 | Go to Galileo probe in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Berners-Lee, Sir Tim (1955– ) in A Dictionary of Computing (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1990 | Go to Goodall, Jane (1934–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hubble Space Telescope in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Berners-Lee, Sir Tim (1955– ) in A Dictionary of Computing (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1991 | Go to Berners-Lee, Sir Tim (1955– ) in A Dictionary of Computing (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Similaun Man in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Galileo probe in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1994 | Go to Ardi in New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to France in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1995 | Go to Wiles, Andrew John (1953–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Galileo probe in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1996 | Go to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Dolly a sheep (q.v.) in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1997 | Go to Sojourner in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1998 | Go to Seahenge, Norfolk, England in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Viagra n. in A Dictionary of Psychology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to International Space Station in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1999 | Go to human genome project in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2000 | Go to Human Genome Project in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to human immunodeficiency virus in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2003 | Go to Human Evolution in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Columbia in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to severe acute respiratory syndrome in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 2006 | Go to International Astronomical Union in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tübingen in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 2009 | Go to Large Hadron Collider in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2010 | Go to genome in A Dictionary of Biomedicine (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2011 | Go to stem cells in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
