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Birth
Isaac Newton was born Christmas day, 1642. It was said that he was born prematurely and that the housewives who were to go fetch medicene doubted he would survive before they returned. whose ideas became the basis for modern physics, had such humble beginnings (livescience.com) -
Enrolls to Cambridge University
After his mother realizes that Isaac did not belong working on a farm, as he was much more interested in reading books, she allowed him to go to college. Although Isaac had to fund his learning himself, by acting as a servant to wealthier students, he still got the excellent education he deserved. Barrow, himself a great mathematician himself, had yet to recognize Newtons genius (ufl.edu) -
Awarded Master's Degree
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Elected into Royal Society
Newton was added to the Royal Society, a group that focused mainly on scientific matters, in 1672. This was a very honorable title to have. and in 1669, before his 27th birthday, he suceeded Issac Barrow as professor of mathematics (ufl.edu) -
Publishing of Principia
The Principia was a collection of 3 books. They explained Newtons laws of motion, Newtons law of universal gravity, and great detail about planetary orbits. The Principia is highly regarded as a major book in the history of Science. -
Elected as member of parliament for Cambridge
After standing up to Charles II, Newton was revered in his ways of politics. He was a strong negotiator and could prove his point one way, or find problems with his opponents points. After publishing the Principia, Newton became much more involved in public affairs (ufl.edu) -
Newton named Master of the Mint
For 30 years, Isaac Newton was the warden and maser of the Royal Mint. This job made Newton very wealthy and gave him much more political power. His position at the Mint ensured a comfortable social and economic status (ufl.edu) -
Publication of Opticks
In 1704, Isaac had finally published a magnificant book on his works with the study of light, how white light was all colors, and his experiments with prisms. This did begin a feud with Leibniz, that would go on for much longer. Later work focused on diffraction of light (he used a prism to discover white light is made up of a spectrum of colors) (Livescience.com) -
Newton Becomes a Knight
In 1705, Queen Anne knighted Isaac (Sparknotes.com). Newton was made a knight not for his battle skills, but for his great cleverness and all his amazing accomplishments. HIs thinking alone granted him power which was very impressive. -
Death :(
Isaac died in 1727, and was respected even more postmortally, if you could believe that. He was buried among the finest in Westminster Abbey. In the end, Newton is as much as enigma to us as he was, no doubt, to himself. (ufl.edu)
