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Birth
Sir Isaac Newtown was born on the 4th of January 1643. According to the Gregorian calendar. -
Mother moves away:
Hannah Newton remarries and moves away, leaving her son to be raised by his uncle. -
Mother moves home:
Death of Hannah's second husband; she returns to live with Isaac, bringing three children with her from her second marriage. -
Trinity College, Cambridge
Newton enrolls in Trinity College, Cambridge -
Founding of the Royal Society
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Bachelor of arts
Newton receives his bachelor of arts from Trinity College. -
Discovers spectrum of light
Outbreak of the plague drives Newton to retire to his mother's home in Woolsthorpe. Newton conducts prism experiments, discovers spectrum of light; works out his system of "fluxions," precursor of modern calculus; begins to consider the idea of gravity. -
Lucasian Chair of Mathematics
Newton appointed Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Trinity, a position he will hold for the next thirty-four years. -
Works on the mathematics of gravitation
Newton works on the mathematics of gravitation in his home in Cambridge. -
Newton elected to the Royal Society
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Death of Hannah Newton
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Completes his calculations on gravity
Newton completes his calculations on gravity and shares them with Halley, who urges him to publish. -
Newton presents the first book
Newton presents the first book of the Principia to the Royal Society. -
Publication of the complete Principia
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Newton elected as representative to Parliament.
Newton elected as Cambridge's representative to Parliament. -
Newton's "Black Year"
Newton's "Black Year." He is plagued by depression and insomnia, and apparently suffers a nervous breakdown in September. -
Appointed warden of the Mint
Newton appointed warden of the Mint, to oversee the implementation of a new currency. He leaves Cambridge and moves to London. -
Newton named master of the Mint
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Newton knighted by Queen Anne
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Second edition of the Principia published.
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Third edition of the Principia published
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Death of Sir Isaac Newton, in London