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79
Mount Vesuvius (79 BC)
Volcano erupts and covers Pompeii and Herculaneum -
221
Building of Great Wall of China (221 BC)
The Great Wall of Chine begins to be built -
384
Aristotle (384 BC)
Aristotle
Born: 384 BC
Died: 322 BC
Hometown: Stagira, Greece
Year of contr: 342 BC
Contr: Believed that everything on earth was made up of all four elements and not atoms. -
430
Small, Spherical, Solid, Invisible Model (430 BC)
The first model of the atom was just a small, invisible, ball. -
460
Democritus (460 BC)
Democritus
Born: 460 BC
Died: 370
Hometown: Abdera, Greece
Year of contr: 400 BC
Contr: Theory that everything is made of atoms. (Atomic theory) -
476
West Roman Empire Ends
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Jan 1, 700
Thales of Miletus (700 BC)
Thales
Born: Pre-Socratic
Died: 545 BC
Hometown: Miletus, Turkey
Year of contr:
Contr: Discovered Ursa Minor, developed crude telescope, and set the solstice. -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicholas Copernicus
Nicholas Copernicus
Born: February 19, 1473
Died: May 24, 1543
Hometown: Toruń, Poland
Year of contr: May 24, 1543
Contr: Proposed a heliocentric planetary set up. -
Mar 14, 1494
Georg Bauer
Georg Bauer
Born: March 14, 1494
Died: November 21, 1555
Hometown: Glauchau, Germany
Year of contr:
Contr: presented the first scientific classification of minerals (based on their physical properties) and described many new minerals, their occurrence and mutual relationships. -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare is born.
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English Settle in Jamestown
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Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton
Born: January 4, 1643
Died: March 31, 1727
Hometown: Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth, United Kingdom
Year of contr: 1687
Contr: Law of Universal Gravitation, 3 Laws of motion, and discovered white light and colors. -
Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Born: June 14, 1736
Died:August 23, 1806
Hometown: Angoulême, France
Year of contr: 1785
Contr: Coulomb’s law of electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion, worked on friction. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
Born: August 28, 1743
Died: May 8, 1794
Hometown: Paris, France
Year of contr: 1772-1794
Contr: Developed Law of Conservation of Mass, named modern system for naming chemical substances, developed base theory of chemical reactivity of oxygen. -
John Dalton
John Dalton
Born: September 6, 1766
Died:July 27, 1844
Hometown: Eaglesfield, Cumbria, UK
Year of contr: 1808
Contr: Researched color blindness and worked in developing the atomic theory -
Metric System
The metric System is introduced to France. -
Napoleon is Crowned
Napoleon becomes crowned emperor of France. -
Frankenstein
Mary Shelly writes Frankenstein. -
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Born: June 13, 1831
Died: November 5, 1879
Hometown: Edinburgh, UK
Year of contr: 1846
Cont: Created a dynamic theory of the electromagnetic field -
Potato Famine
Disease spread across Ireland and kills potato plant. -
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
Born: December 18, 1856
Died: August 30, 1940
Hometown: Cheetham HIll, Manchester, UK
Year of contr: 1886
Contr: Publishes Treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings, Application of Dynamic Physics and Chemistry, and Notes on Recent Research in Electricity and Magnetism -
Robert Millikan
Robert Millikan
Born: March 22, 1868
Died: December 19, 1953
Hometown: Morrison, IL, USA
Year of contr: 1910
Contr: Found the charge of the electron,worked on photoelectric effect. -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
Born: August 30, 1871
Died: October 19, 1937
Hometown: Brightwater, New Zealand
Year of contr: 1917
Cont: Converted nitrogen to oxygen, split the 1st atom -
Battle of Little Big Horn
General Custer's last stand. Custer splits his troops and is massacred by the Native Americans. -
Rabid Dog Bite
Boy is bitten by a rabid dog and Louie Pasteur invents a vaccine for rabies. -
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Born: October 7, 1885
Died: November 18, 1962
Hometown: Copenhagen, Denmark
Year of contr: 1912
Contr: Absorption on alpha rays and Rutherford’s discovery are simplified for lectures -
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
Born: October 20, 1891
Died: July 24, 1974
Hometown: Bollington, UK
Year of contr: 1932
Contr: Proved existence of neutron -
USS Maine Explodes
An American ship off the coast of Cuba explodes and America starts war with Spain in Cuba. -
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
Born: December 5, 1901
Died: February 1, 1976
Hometown: Würzburg, Germany
Year of contr: 1925
Cont: Created the theory of quantum mechanics. -
Fritz Strassmann
Fritz Strassmann
Born: February 22, 1902
Died: April 22, 1980
Hometown: Boppard, Germany
Year of contr: 1938
Contr: Discovered neutron induced nuclear fission in uranium. -
Ernest Walton
Ernest Walton
Born: October 6, 1903
Died: June 25, 1995
Hometown: Abbeyside, Republic of Ireland
Year of contr: 1960
Contr: Worked on indirect methods of producing fast particles, worked on the linear accelerator (betatron), and specialty in hydrodynamics -
Flight in Kitty Hawk
The Wright brother fly the first airplane -
Plum Pudding Model
The model gets the name because the diagram looks like a plum. The entire atom is a positive ball while the electrons are on the inside like seeds. -
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
Born: June 13, 1911
Died: September 1,1988
Hometown San Francisco, CA, USA
Year of contr: 1937
Cont: 1st experimented demonstration of K-electron capture by nuclei. -
Titanic Sinks
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Planetary Model
The nuclei is in the center while the electrons spin around the nuclei on its orbital just like how the earth goes around the sun and rotates on its axis. -
Rutherford-Bohr Model
Both are models of atoms but Rutherford's atom shows the electrons anywhere while Bohr's model had more structure and shows that the electrons follow a path. -
Germany Declares War on France
The beginnings of WWI -
United States Enters WWI
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Electron Cloud Model
There is a nucleus in the middle and the electrons are scattered all around it. -
Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
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George Zweig
George Zweig
Born: May 30, 1937
Current Age: 79
Hometown: Moscow, Russia
Year of contr: 1946
Contr: proposed existence of subatomic particles, quarks. -
Atomic Boms in Hiroshima
The United States dropped and atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. -
Craig Venter
Craig Venter
Born: October 14,1946
Current Age: 69
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Year of contr: 2001
Cont: He was apart of the sequencing analysis of the human genome. -
Vietnam War Ends
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Nelson Mandela Ends Apartheid
Apartheid in South Africa has ended. -
War in Afghanistan
The war with Afghanistan begins to wind down as American troops are being pulled out. -
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