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Timeline of Astrology/Astronomy
This is a timeline of important events in astronomical history. Some events which are not specifically astronomical in nature are listed to give historical perspective as to what was happening in those times.
Date
Location
Event
3,200 B.C.
Ireland
Newgrange is built.
3,000 B.C.
England
Stonehenge is built.
~2,000 B.C.
Egypt and Mesopotamia
First solar-lunar calendars
~280 B.C.
Samos (Alexandria)
Aristrachus suggests the Earth revolves around the Sun. He provides first estimation of Earth-Sun distance.
~240 B.C.
Cyrene (now Shahhat, Libya)
Eratosthenes measures the circumference of the earth with surprising accuracy!
~130 B.C.
Greece
Hipparchus develops the first acccurate star map and star catalogue with over 850 of the brightest stars.
45 B.C.
Roman Empire
Introduction of the Julian calendar, a purely solar calendar, to the Roman Empire.
140 A.D.
Greece
Ptolemy suggests geocentric theory of the universe in famous work Mathematike Syntaxis.
813 A.D.
Iraq
Al Mamon founds the Baghdad school of astronomy.
1054 A.D.
China
Chinese astronomers observe supernova in Taurus.
1543 A.D.
Poland
Copernicus publishes his heliocentric theory of the Universe.
1572 A.D.
Denmark
Tycho Brahe discovers a supernova in constellation of Cassiopeia.
1582 A.D.
Italy
Pope Gregory XIII introduces the Gregorian calendar.
1603 A.D.
Germany
Johann Bayer introduces Bayer designation of stars, assigning Greek letters to stars, still in use today.
1608 A.D.
Netherlands
Hans Lippershey, a Dutch spectacles maker invents the telescope.
1609 A.D.
Italy
Galileo uses telescope for astronomical purposes. He discovers 4 Jovian moons, the Moon's craters and the Milky Way galaxy.
1609 A.D.
Germany
Kepler's First and Second Laws of Planetary Motions are announced.
1609 A.D.
Germany
The Third Law of Planetary Motion is announced by Kepler in his work Harmonice Mudi (Harmony of the World).
1656 A.D.
Netherlands
Christian Huygens discovers Saturn's rings and Titan, the fourth satellite of Saturn.
1659 A.D.
Netherlands
Huygens notes markings on Mars.
1666 A.D.
Italy
Martian polar ice caps are noted by Cassini.
1668 A.D.
England
The first reflecting telescope was built by Newton.
1669 A.D.
Italy
Geminiano Montanari discovers the star Algol is not steady in brightness, thus recognizing the first variable star.
1675 A.D.
France
While in Paris, Danish astronomer Ole Romer measures the speed of light.
1675 A.D.
France
Cassini discovers that Saturn's rings are split into two parts, so that today the gap is called the "Cassini Division".
1687 A.D.
England
Newton publishes his theory of universal gravitation in the work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. This is seen to be the start of Modern Astronomy.
1705 A.D.
England
Halley correctly predicts the return of a comet (Halley's comet) in 1758.
1758 A.D.
Germany
Johann Palitzsch observes Halley's comet as predicted by Halley in 1705.
1781 A.D.
England
The discovery of Uranus by Herschel
1781 A.D.
France
Messier discovers galaxies, nebula and star clusters while looking comets. He compiles a catalogue of these objects (Messier objects).
1801 A.D.
Italy
Piazzi discovers first asteroid, Ceres.
1842 A.D.
Austria
Discovery of the 'Doppler Effect' by Austrian physicist and mathematician, Christian Doppler.
1843 A.D.
Germany
Samuel Heinrich Schwabe describes the sunspot cycle.
1846 A.D.
Germany
Johann Galle observes and discovers Neptune. His observations were prompted by mathematical calculations by French astronomer Joseph Leverrier and English astronomer John Couch Adams.
1860-63 A.D.
England
The beginning of spectral analysis of stars by Sir William Huggins
1868 A.D.
England
Jansen and Lockyer observe solar prominences.
1872 A.D.
U.S.A.
Henry Draper takes a photograph of the stellar spectrum of Vega. This is the first of its kind.
1877 A.D.
U.S.A.
Asaph Hall discovers Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars.
1877 A.D.
Italy
Schiapparelli observes the canals on Mars.
1878 A.D.
Jupiter
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter becomes prominent.
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