{"slug": "antoine-lavoisier", "label": "Antoine Lavoisier", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39607", "qid": "Q39607", "description": "French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1743, 1794], "span_label": ["1743 CE", "1794 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "royal-society", "label": "Royal Society", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1743, "year_label": "1743 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 26", "text": "August 26 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360887949#Births", "title": "1743", "revid": 1360887949, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1766, "year_label": "1766 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 29", "text": "May 29 – In a paper read to the Royal Society, British theoretical chemist Henry Cavendish first describes his process of producing what he refers to as \"inflammable air\" by dissolving base metals such as iron, zinc and tin in a flask of sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid, drawing the conclusion that the vapor that was released is different from air. Seven years later, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier bestows the name \"hydrogen\" on the gas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358061260#April–June", "title": "1766", "revid": 1358061260, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567291#Date_unknown", "title": "1784", "revid": 1370567291, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1787, "year_label": "1787 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Antoine Lavoisier is the first to suggest that silica is an oxide of a hitherto unknown metallic chemical element, later isolated and named silicon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370561702#Date_unknown", "title": "1787", "revid": 1370561702, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1789, "year_label": "1789 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elementary Treatise of Chemistry), an influential chemistry textbook by Antoine Lavoisier, is published; translated into English in 1790, it comes to be considered the first modern chemical textbook.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818853#Date_unknown", "title": "1789", "revid": 1368818853, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1794, "year_label": "1794 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 8", "text": "May 8 – Reign of Terror: chemist Antoine Lavoisier is tried, convicted and executed in Paris with 27 co-defendants also associated with the former ferme générale.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362801189#April–June", "title": "1794", "revid": 1362801189, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1794, "year_label": "1794 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 8", "text": "May 8 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362801189#Deaths", "title": "1794", "revid": 1362801189, "section": "Deaths"}}]}