Timeline: Astronomy and space
| Years: 2781 BCE - 2011 | Subject: Science and technology, Astronomy and Cosmology |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191737305 |
| Year | Event |
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| 2781 BCE | Go to Sothic cycle in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1750 BCE | Go to Babylonia in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 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: |
| 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. 550 BCE | Go to zodiac in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 450 BCE | Go to Philolāus in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (1 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. 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. 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: |
| 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. 50 BCE | 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: |
| 921 | Go to Jewish in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 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: |
| 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: |
| 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: |
| 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: |
| 1632 | Go to Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 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: |
| 1672 | Go to Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625–1712) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev 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: |
| 1758 | Go to Halley, Edmund (1656–1742) in A Dictionary of Physics (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: |
| 1781 | Go to Herschel, (Frederick) William (1738–1822) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1796 | Go to Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de (1749–1827) in World Encyclopedia (1 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: |
| 1904 | Go to Hale, George Ellery (1868–1938) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1905 | Go to Lowell, Percival (1855–1916) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev 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: |
| 1924 | Go to Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889–1953) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 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: |
| 1929 | Go to Hubble's law in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1948 | 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: |
| 1957 | Go to Fowler, William Alfred (1911–1995) in A Dictionary of Scientists (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: |
| 1959 | 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: |
| 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 Kennedy, John F. (1917–63) in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1963 | Go to Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna (1937– ) in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (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: |
| 1967 | Go to Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn (1943–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1968 | 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: |
| 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: |
| 1975 | Go to Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1976 | 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: |
| 1986 | Go to Challenger in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 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: |
| 1990 | Go to Hubble Space Telescope in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1991 | Go to Galileo probe in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1995 | Go to Galileo probe in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 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 International Space Station in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2003 | Go to Columbia in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2006 | Go to International Astronomical Union in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2009 | Go to satellite, artificial in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2011 | Go to Cape Canaveral (Florida/USA) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
