Isacc Newton

  • Isacc Newton was born at Woolsthorpe; Galielo dies

  • Enters Trinity College Cambridge

  • Awared bachelor's degree

  • Conducts revoultionary work in Mathematics,optics and physics 1665-7

  • Awared master's degree

  • Appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge

  • Reflecting telescope is presented to the Royal Soceity

  • Elected Fellow

  • 1st paper on light is sent to the Royal Society

  • Second paper on light is sent to the Royal Society

  • Edmond Halley visits Newton at Cambridge. Newton begins writing the Principia

  • Principia is published

  • Elected toParliament as representative Cambridge University

  • Suffers breakdown July-August

  • Aapointed warden of the mint

  • Appointed master of the mint

  • Elected to Parliament as representative of Cambridge University

  • Elected president of the Royal Society

  • Optics published

  • Knighted by Queen Anne

  • 2nd edition of the Principia is published (11th - 14th)

  • 2nd edition of the Optics is published

  • Isaac Newton dies