A Newtonian Chronology

(The chronology is still a bit sparse and is dominated by the recent addition of exits and redits. This should all change soon.)

1642

25 Dec: Isaac Newton born at Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire.

1649

30 Jan: King Charles I executed for treason.

1655

Newton goes to King Edward VI Grammar School in Grantham.

1658

Sep 3: Death of Oliver Cromwell.

1660

25 May: King Charles II returns to England.

1661

Newton admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge.

1665

Graduates Bachelor of Arts. Returns to Woolsthorpe due to the plague.

1666

Sep 1: Great Fire of London begins.

1667

Returns to Trinity and is elected a Fellow.

1668

Sep 29: Redit

1669

Elected Lucasian professor of mathematics.
Nov 25: Exit
Dec 8: Redit

1671

Apr 17: Exit
May 11: Redit

1672

Jan 11: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
Jun 18: Exit
Jul 19: Redit

1673

Mar 10: Exit
Apr 1: Redit

1674

Aug 28: Exit
Sep 5: Redit

1675

Feb 9: Exit
Mar 10: Redit
Oct 14: Exit
Oct 23: Redit
7 Dec: Hypothesis explaining the Properties of Light sent to Oldenburg, secretary of the Royal Society, and read out at meetings that month.

1676

5 Feb: Newton's conciliatory letter to Hooke including the ``On the Shoulders of Giants'' image.
May 27: Exit
Jun 1: Redit

1677

Feb 20: Exit
Mar 3: Redit
Mar 26: Exit
Apr 26: Exit
May 22: Redit
Jun 8: Exit

1678

May 6: Exit
May 27: Redit

1679

May 15: Exit
May 24: Redit
Jun 4: Newton's mother Hannah is buried after dying from a fatal fever with her son present.
Jul 19: Redit
Jul 28: Exit
Nov 27: Redit

1680

Mar 11: Exit
Apr 28: Exit
May 29: Redit

1681

Mar 15: Exit
Mar 26: Redit
May 23: Exit

1682

Feb 21: Exit
Feb 28: Redit
Apr 8: Exit
Apr 29: Redit
May 10: Exit
Sep: Observes the comet later called Halley's Comet.

1683

Mar 17: Exit
May 3: Redit
May 21: Exit

1684

Edmund Halley asks Newton about orbits due to an inverse square law.

1685

Feb : Death of Charles II. Accession of James II.
Mar 27: Exit
Apr 11: Redit
Jun 11: Exit
Jun 20: Redit
Jun-Jul: Monmouth's rebellion is put down and followed by Judge Jeffreys' ``Bloody Assize''.

1687

Mar 25: Exit
Apr 21: Newton and other Cambridge delegates appear before Judge Jeffreys in the Alban Francis case.
May 7: Francis case concluded in favour of Cambridge.
Jul 5: Publication of Principia

1688

Mar 30: Exit
Apr 25: Redit
Jun 22: Exit
Jul 17: Redit
Nov 5: William of Orange lands in England. James flees to France. ``The Glorious Revolution''

1689

Jan 15: Newton elected to Convention Parliament.
Jan 17: Newton attends a dinner with King William.
First surviving portrait painted by Godfrey Kneller.
Apr : Former Judge Jeffreys dies of alcoholic liver failure in the Tower of London.
Bill of Rights passed.

1690

Feb 4: Redit
Mar 10: Exit
Apr 12: Redit
Jun 22: Exit
Jul 2: Redit

1691

Sep 12: Exit
Sep 19: Redit
Dec 31: Exit

1692

Jan 21: Redit

1693

May 30: Exit
Jun 8: Redit

1695

Sep 10: Redit
Sep 14: Exit
Sep 28: Redit

1696

Mar 23: Exit
Apr 13: Appointed Warden of the Mint.
Apr 20: Exit
Moves to London.

1697

Feb 6: Peter the Great, Tzar of the all the Russias, visits Newton at the Mint.

1700

Appointed Master of the Mint.

1702

Mar 8: William III dies. Accession of Queen Anne.

1703

Elected President of the Royal Society.

1704

Publication of Opticks

1705

16 Apr: Knighted by Queen Anne at Cambridge.
17 May: Fails to be elected to parliament.

1709

Moves to Chelsea.

1710

Moves to 35 St Martin's Street.

1713

Publication of second edition of Principia

1714

Death of Queen Anne. Accession of George I.

1716

Death of Leibniz.

1717

Publication of second English edition of Opticks.

1721

Third English edition of Opticks.

1725

Moves to Kensington.

1726

Third edition of Principia

1727

Newton dies and is buried at Westminster Abbey.