Timeline: Physics
| Years: c. 13.7 billion years ago - 2010 | Subject: Science and technology, Physics |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191737343 |
| 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: |
| c. 12 billion years ago | |
| 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. 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. 250 BCE | Go to Archimedes' principle in A New Dictionary of Eponyms (1 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: |
| 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: |
| 1654 | Go to Guericke, Otto von (1602–1686) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1665 | Go to Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1672 | Go to Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1676 | Go to Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625–1712) in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1678 | Go to Huygens, Christiaan (1629–95) in A Dictionary of Physics (6 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: |
| 1714 | Go to Fahrenheit, (Gabriel) Daniel (1686–1736) 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: |
| 1752 | Go to Franklin, Benjamin (1706–90) in World Encyclopedia (1 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: |
| c. 1785 | Go to Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736–1806) in World Encyclopedia (1 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: |
| 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: |
| 1827 | Go to Ohm, Georg Simon (1787–1854) in A Dictionary of Scientists (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: |
| 1842 | Go to Doppler, Christian Johann (1803–1853) 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 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: |
| c. 1864 | Go to Maxwell's equations in A New Dictionary of Eponyms (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: |
| 1894 | Go to argon in A Dictionary of Chemistry (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1895 | 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: |
| 1900 | Go to quantum theory in A Dictionary of Physics (6 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 half-life 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 special theory of relativity in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev 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 thermodynamics, laws of in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 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 Millikan's oil-drop experiment in A Dictionary of Physics (6 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: |
| 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 X-ray crystallography in A Dictionary of Physics (6 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 Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys (1887–1915) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1915 | Go to relativity in World Encyclopedia (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: |
| 1927 | Go to uncertainty principle in World Encyclopedia (1 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: |
| 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: |
| 1934 | Go to Joliot-Curie, Irène (1897–1956) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (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 Einstein, Albert (1879–1955) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1940 | 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: |
| 1942 | 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: |
| 1945 | 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 transistor in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1949 | Go to Joe One in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (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: |
| 1951 | 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: |
| 1953 | Go to nuclear bomb in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1964 | Go to Penzias, Arno Allan (1933–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (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: |
| 1988 | Go to Hawking, Stephen William (1943– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2008 | Go to Large Hadron Collider in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Large Hadron Collider in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2009 | Go to Large Hadron Collider in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2010 | Go to antiparticle in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
