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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.
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||378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
||27 BC: Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. Pic.


||1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
||378: General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán. Pic search glyph: https://www.google.com/search?q=siyaj+k%27ak%27&oq=Siyaj+K%27ak%27
 
||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)|1548: Mathematician [[Adam Ries (nonfiction)|Adam Ries]] publishes textbook of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals in such applications as detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1545: George Spalatin dies ... pseudonym taken by Georg Burkhardt ... humanist, theologian, reformer, secretary of the Saxon Elector Frederick the Wise, as well as an important figure in the history of the Reformation. Pic.


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. Pic.
 
|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. Pic (engraved miniature).


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.
||1767: Anders Gustaf Ekeberg born ... chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. Pic.


||1743: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist born.
||1800: Johann Christian Wiegleb dies ... druggist and early innovator of chemistry as a science. Pic.


||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 dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||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.


||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 born ... 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, German biochemist and physician (d. 1949)
||1881: Arthur Percy Morris Fleming born ... electrical engineer, researcher director, and engineering educator. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Percy+Morris+Fleming


File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1889: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
||1885: Michel Plancherel born ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic.


||1919 – Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic (d. 2012)
||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.


||Oskar Barnack (d. 16 January 1936) was a German optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography.
||1919: Jerome Horwitz born ... chemist and academic. Horwitz synthesized a compound that was to become known as zidovudine (AZT) - an antiviral drug used to treat HIV patients; Zidovudine was initially developed as a treatment for cancer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=jerome+horwitz+chemist


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.
||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.
 
||1936: Oskar Barnack dies ... optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography. Pic.
 
||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: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.


||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.
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 designed 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.
 
File:Buckminster Fuller as a young man.jpg|link=Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|1970: Polymath [[Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|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.
||2000: Robert R. Wilson dies ... American physicist and academic. Pic.


||2000 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
||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)
||2002: Robert Hanbury Brown dies ... astronomer and physicist ... made notable contributions to the development of radar and later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy. With Richard Q. Twiss he developed the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect leading to the creation of intensity interferometers.  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)
||2013: André Cassagnes dies ... technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926).  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Andr%C3%A9+Cassagnes


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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Latest revision as of 12:55, 17 January 2022

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 designed and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.

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

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

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

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