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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.
||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.
||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.
||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.
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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.
||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:Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1622: First known literary reference to the illustration ''[[Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter]]'' (in an anonymous gloss of Pedro Mexía's ''Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon'').
File:Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1622: First known literary reference to the illustration ''[[Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter]]'' (in an anonymous gloss of Pedro Mexía's ''Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon'').
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||1743: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist born. Pic (engraved miniature).
||1743: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist born. Pic (engraved miniature).


||Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (b. 16 January 1767) was a Swedish chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. Pic.
||1767: Anders Gustaf Ekeberg born ... chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. Pic.


||Johann Christian Wiegleb (d. January 16, 1800) was a notable German druggist and early innovator of chemistry as a science. Pic.
||1800: Johann Christian Wiegleb dies ... druggist and early innovator of chemistry as a science. Pic.


||1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769). Pic.
||1834: Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||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.
||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.


||Leonor Michaelis (b. January 16, 1875) was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis–Menten kinetics in 1913. Pic.
||1875: Leonor Michaelis born ... biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis–Menten kinetics in 1913. Pic.


|File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1889: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
||1906: Erich Kähler born ... mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory. Pic.


||Erich Kähler (b. 16 January 1906) was a German mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory. Pic.
||1919: Jerome Horwitz born ... chemist and academic. No pic.


||1919 – Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic (d. 2012). No pic.
||1922: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard dies ... meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic.


||Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard (d. 16 January 1922) was a French meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic.
||1936: Oskar Barnack dies ... optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography.


||Oskar Barnack (d. 16 January 1936) was a German optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography.
||1938: Frederick Rowbottom born ... logician and mathematician. The large cardinal notion of Rowbottom cardinals is named after him. Pic: https://week42.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/fred-rowbottom/


|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.
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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.
||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.
||1970: Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.


||Sir Francis Harry Hinsley (d. 16 February 1998) was an English historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Pic.
||1998: Francis Harry Hinsley dies ... historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Pic.


||2000 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914). Pic.
||2000: Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914). Pic.


||2001: Patent granted for Control circuits for electric coding machines. Was applied for 1944. See https://patents.google.com/patent/US6175625B1/en and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGABA
||2001: Patent granted for Control circuits for electric coding machines. Was applied for 1944. See https://patents.google.com/patent/US6175625B1/en and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGABA


||2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916). No pic.
||2002: Robert Hanbury Brown dies ... astronomer and physicist. No pic.


||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.
||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). No portrait, use Etch-a-Sketch.
||2013: André Cassagnes dies ... technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926). No portrait, use Etch-a-Sketch.


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|2017: Updated edition of ''[[On Halting Problems]]'' published, with new chapter of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques for detecting and preventing algorithm hijacking and related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|2017: Updated edition of ''[[On Halting Problems]]'' published, with new chapter of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques for detecting and preventing algorithm hijacking and related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


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