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December 25, 1642: ·Birth of Isaac Newton in Woolsthorpe, England
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Hannah Newton remarries and moves away, leaving her son to be raised by an uncle.
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Charles I beheaded by Cromwell and the Puritans.
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Death of Hannah's second husband; she returns to live with Isaac, bringing three children with her from her second marriage.
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Newton enrolls in the Grantham Grammar School
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·Death of Cromwell.
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Charles II crowned King of England, Restoration begins
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Newton enrolls in Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Founding of the Royal Society
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Newton receives his bachelor of arts from Trinity College
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Fire in London. Outbreak of plague drives Newton to retire to his mother's home in Woolsthorpe. Newton conducts prism experiments, discovers spectrum of light;begins to consider the idea of gravity.
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Newton appointed Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Trinity, a position he will hold for the next thirty-four years.
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Newton elected to the Royal Society
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Newton's paper on optics and his prism experiments sent to the Society. Rivalry with Hooke begins.
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Newton works on the mathematics of gravitation in his home in Cambridge.
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Hooke writes book in which he suggests existence of "attractive powers," akin to gravity.
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Death of Hannah Newton
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Hooke discusses principle of inverse squares with Christopher Wren and Halley
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Halley goes to visit Newton in Cambridge, where they discuss the principle inverse squares and its relationship with planetary orbits.
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Newton completes his calculations on gravity and shares them with Halley, who urges him to publish.
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Newton sends a brief book, to the Royal Society, outlining his findings.
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Newton presents the first book of the Principia to the Royal Society.
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Publication of the complete Principia
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Glorious Revolution in England. James II flees to France, William and Mary take the throne.
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Newton elected as Cambridge's representative to Parliament.
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Newton's "Black Year." He is plagued by depression and insomnia, and apparently suffers a nervous breakdown in September.
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Newton appointed warden of the Mint, to oversee the implementation of a new currency. He leaves Cambridge and moves to London.
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Newton named master of the Mint.
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Death of Hooke; Newton elected President of the Royal Society.
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Publication of Opticks; beginning of feud with Leibniz.
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Newton knighted by Queen Anne.
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Royal Society commission, under Newton's direction, investigates the competing claims of Leibniz and Newton to having developed calculus, and decides in favor of Newton.
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Second edition of the Principia published.
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Death of Leibniz
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Third edition of the Principia published; all reference to Leibniz has been removed.
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Death of Sir Isaac Newton, in London.