Event Name Start Date End Date Category Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moses 1393 BC 1273 BC Religion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pythagoras 0569 BC 0475 BC Ancient 569 BC - 475 BC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zeno of Elea 0490 BC 0425 BC Ancient 490 BC - 425 BC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Democritus 0460 BC 0370 BC Ancient 460 BC - 370 BC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plato 0427 BC 0347 BC Ancient 427 BC - 347 BC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aristotle 0384 BC 0322 BC Ancient 384 BC - 322 BC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Euclid of Alexandria 0325 BC 0265 BC Ancient 325 BC - 265 BC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archimedes 0287 BC 0212 BC Ancient 287 BC - 212 BC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JESUS 0008 BC 0036 Religion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thales of Miletus Ancient 24 BC - 547 BC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicomachus 0060 0120 Ancient Introduction to Arithmetic was the standard arithmetic text for more than 1000 years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ptolemy 0090 0180 Ptolemy, was a Hellenistic mathematician, geographer, astronomer, astrologer - lived Roman Egypt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Muhammad 0570 0632 Religion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Bacon 1214 1294 Doctor Mirabilis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dante Alighieri 1265 1321 Writer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Black Death" 1347 1353 Disease -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Columbus 1451 1506 Geography -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonardo da Vinci 1452 1519 Artist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copernicus 1473 1543 Earth: daily motion about its axis; yearly motion around a stationary sun. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Magellan 1480 1521 Geography -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Luther 1483 1546 Religion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- America 1492 1492 Geography -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevin 1548 1620 decimal fractions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Napier 1550 1617 invention of logarithms -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Francis Bacon 1561 1626 Philosopher "knowledge is power"Novum Organum,New Atlantis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shakespeare 1564 1616 Writer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Galileo Galilei 1564 1642 Basic Law of Falling Bodies; Telescope; Moons, Craters, Copernican Advocate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kepler 1571 1630 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- French Wars of Religion 1582 1598 War -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Descartes 1596 1650 Analytic Geometry; Doubt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermat 1601 1665 Number Theory -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pascal 1623 1662 French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huygens 1629 1695 Optics, Calculus, Probability -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spinoza 1632 1677 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newton 1643 1727 Calculus,Physics,Optics, F=ma -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leibniz 1646 1716 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Plague 1665 1666 Disease -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Euler 1707 1783 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kant 1724 1804 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Goethe 1749 1832 Writer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mozart 1756 1791 Music -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beethoven 1770 1827 Music -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- American War of Independence 1775 1783 War -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gauss 1777 1855 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schopenhauer 1788 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- French Revolution 1789 1799 War -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darwin 1809 1882 Biology -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mendel 1822 1884 Biology -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Riemann 1826 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maxwell 1831 1879 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernst Mach 1838 1916 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nietzsche 1844 1900 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boltzmann 1844 1906 statistical mechanics; statistical thermodynamics. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Georg Cantor 1845 1918 Transfinites, Set Theory -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frege 1848 1925 founder of modern symbolic logic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poincaré 1854 1912 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peano 1858 1932 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Max Planck 1858 1947 founder of quantum theory -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hilbert 1862 1943 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bertrand Russell 1872 1970 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Einstein 1879 1955 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moritz Schlick 1882 1936 Philosopher -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schrödinger 1887 1961 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wittgenstein 1889 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heisenberg 1901 1976 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- von Neumann 1903 1957 computer science; Qm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alonzo Church 1903 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Gödel 1906 1978 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Turing 1912 1954 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WW I 1914 1918 War -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russian Revolution 1917 1917 War -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WW2 1939 1945 War