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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:Pedro Mejía.jpg|link=Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|1541: Writer, humanist, and historian [[Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|Pedro Mexía]] publishes ''Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon'' ("A Miscellany of Several [[Gnomon algorithms]]"), which quickly raises awareness of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] across Europe.
||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: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]].
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. Pic.


||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: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'').
||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.


||Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (b. 16 January 1767) was a Swedish chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. Pic.
||1834: Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


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


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


||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.
||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


||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.
||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.


|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. 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


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


||Oskar Barnack (d. 16 January 1936) was a German optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography.
||1936: Oskar Barnack dies ... optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography. Pic.


|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.
||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:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|1966: Reverse engineering of [[Cryptographic numen]] unexpectedly reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
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.
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.
||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.


||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.
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.


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


||2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
||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


||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.
||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.


||2013 – André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
||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.


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]].
||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


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  • 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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