William Herschel

  • Birth

  • Wrote Symphony No. 8 in C minor

  • Began career as an astronomer

  • First observation: Orion Nebula

  • Begins serch to document all double stars

    No percise date
  • Discovery of Uranus

  • Elected to the Royal Society

  • Recieved title- King's Astronomer

  • Discovered Titania and Oberon

  • Marriage to Mary Pitt

  • Completed largest telescope

    No percise date
  • Discovered Enceldus

  • Discovered Mimas

  • Son, John, Born

  • Discovery of Infared light

  • Meets Napoleon

    No percise date
  • Coined term "asteroid"

    No date given
  • Appointed first President of Royal Astronomical Society

    No percise date
  • Death