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Alan Turing was born in London, shortly before the start of WWI
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Turing's closest school friend, Christopher, dies, an event believed to have influenced much of Turing's philosophy.
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Turing graduated from King's College in mathematics, and was granted a fellow for proving the central limit theorem.
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Turing Publishes his paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," which proved that his "universal computing machine" was possible.
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Turing received his Ph.D. from Priceton University, also in mathematics.
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With the start of WWII, Turing worked as a codebreaker to decrypt the German Enigma code.
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Turing proposes to another codebreaker, Joan Clarke, but breaks off the engagement after admitting to her that he's gay.
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Turing worked with Donald Bayley to develop a program that could encrypt and decrypt recorded audio, though it was finished to late for use in WWII.
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While working with the National Physical Laboratory, Turing wrote a paper that described a stored-program computer.
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Turing's method of solving matrices is still used today.
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Turing worked with another computer scientist, D. G. Champernowne on a program that could play chess.
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The Turing Test, what Alan Turing is generally most famous for, was proposed in his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence."
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Turing was convited for homosexuality after his relationship with Arnold Murray was discovered.
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Later in life, Turing became more interested in biology, and published "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis."
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Turing committed suicide through cyanide poisoning in his home.
