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Sir Isaac Newtown was born on the 4th of January 1643. According to the Gregorian calendar.
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Hannah Newton remarries and moves away, leaving her son to be raised by his uncle.
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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 Trinity College, Cambridge
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Newton receives his bachelor of arts from Trinity College.
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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.
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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 works on the mathematics of gravitation in his home in Cambridge.
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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 presents the first book of the Principia to the Royal Society.
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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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