Science & discovery

49 historical events in science & discovery.

• 1609 CEGalileos First Telescope Astronomy
• 1665 CEGreat Plague of London
• 1735 CELinnaeus Systema Naturae
• 1768 CECook First Pacific Voyage
• 1796 CEJenner Smallpox Vaccination
• 1809 CECharles Darwin Is Born
• 1815 CEMount Tambora Eruption
• 1856 CENikola Tesla Is Born
• 1867 CEMarie Curie Is Born
• 1879 CEAlbert Einstein Is Born
• 1905 CEEinstein Annus Mirabilis Papers
• 1909 CEPeary North Pole Claim
• 1912 CEAlan Turing Is Born
• 1918 CESpanish Flu Pandemic Peaks
• 1941 CEPenicillin Is First Used on a Patient
• 1942 CEStephen Hawking Is Born
• 1945 CEAtomic Bombs on Japan
• 1949 CESoviet Bomb Test
• 1961 CEYuri Gagarin Orbits Earth
• 1963 CEValentina Tereshkova Flies in Space
• 1968 CEApollo 8 Orbits the Moon
• 1970 CEApollo 13 Crisis
• 1978 CEFirst IVF Baby Is Born
• 1980 CESmallpox Is Declared Eradicated
• 1984 CEBhopal Disaster
• 1989 CEExxon Valdez Spill
• 1992 CEThe First Exoplanets Are Confirmed
• 1996 CEDolly the Sheep Cloned
• 2001 CEAnthrax Letters
• 2003 CEColumbia Shuttle Lost
• 2003 CEThe Human Genome Project Is Completed
• 2006 CEPluto Demoted
• 2007 CEThe Bald Eagle Is Removed from the Endangered Species List
• 2009 CEH1N1 Pandemic
• 2010 CEDeepwater Horizon Spill
• 2010 CEEyjafjallajökull Ash Grounds European Flights
• 2012 CECRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Is Demonstrated
• 2012 CECuriosity Lands on Mars
• 2012 CEHiggs Boson Announced
• 2014 CEEbola Outbreak in West Africa
• 2015 CESpaceX Lands a Falcon 9 First Stage
• 2016 CEGravitational Waves Detected for the First Time
• 2016 CEMost Humpback Whale Populations Leave the Endangered List
• 2016 CEZika Virus Emergency
• 2017 CESolar Eclipse Crosses US
• 2019 CEFirst Black Hole Image Published
• 2021 CEJames Webb Telescope Launch
• 2023 CEArtemis II Crew Announced for Moon Flyby
• 2024 CESolar Eclipse Across US