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||27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
||378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
||1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1477: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1477: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
File:Adam Ries.png|link=Adam Ries (nonfiction)|1501: Mathematician [[Adam Ries (nonfiction)|Adam Ries]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Adam Ries.png|link=Adam Ries (nonfiction)|1501: Mathematician [[Adam Ries (nonfiction)|Adam Ries]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1547: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1547: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
||1605 – The first edition of ''El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha'' (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1731: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] translates [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbook from English into French.
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1731: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] translates [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbook from English into French.
||1743: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist born.
||1743: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist born.
||Johann Christian Wiegleb (d. January 16, 1800) was a notable German druggist and early innovator of chemistry as a science.
||1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
||1862 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
||1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician (d. 1949)
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1889: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1889: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
||Oskar Barnack (1 November 1879 – 16 January 1936) was a German optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography.
 
||1919 – Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic (d. 2012)
 
||Oskar Barnack (d. 16 January 1936) was a German optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography.
 
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1953: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] witnesses spontaneous [[cryptographic numen]], develops new theory of quantum electronics.
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1953: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] witnesses spontaneous [[cryptographic numen]], develops new theory of quantum electronics.
File:John Riedl.jpg|link=John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|1962: Computer scientist and academic [[John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|John T. Riedl]] born. He will be a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.  
File:John Riedl.jpg|link=John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|1962: Computer scientist and academic [[John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|John T. Riedl]] born. He will be a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.  
   
   
File:Robert J. Van de Graaff.jpg|link=Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist [[Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|Robert J. Van de Graaff]] dies. He design design and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
File:Robert J. Van de Graaff.jpg|link=Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist [[Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|Robert J. Van de Graaff]] dies. He design design and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
||1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
||1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
||2000 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
||2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
||2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
||2013 – André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2015: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2015: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
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Revision as of 16:57, 11 December 2017

  • 1477: Johannes Schöner born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.

    1477: Johannes Schöner born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.

  • 1501: Mathematician Adam Ries publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1501: Mathematician Adam Ries publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1547: Johannes Schöner dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.

    1547: Johannes Schöner dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.

  • 1731: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates Gnomon algorithm textbook from English into French.

    1731: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates Gnomon algorithm textbook from English into French.

  • 1889: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.

    1889: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.

  • 1953: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov witnesses spontaneous cryptographic numen, develops new theory of quantum electronics.

    1953: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov witnesses spontaneous cryptographic numen, develops new theory of quantum electronics.

  • 1962: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl born. He will be a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.

    1962: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl born. He will be a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.

  • 1967: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff dies. He design design and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.

    1967: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff dies. He design design and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.

  • 2015: Cryptographic numen modeled in nanowire, reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2015: Cryptographic numen modeled in nanowire, reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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