{"slug": "astronomer-royal", "label": "Astronomer Royal", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer_Royal", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369877", "qid": "Q369877", "description": "position in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1675, 1767], "span_label": ["1675 CE", "1767 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "edmond-halley", "label": "Edmond Halley", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 1675, "year_label": "1675 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – John Flamsteed is appointed by King Charles II as England's \"astronomical observator\", in effect, becoming the first Astronomer Royal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992546#January–March", "title": "1675", "revid": 1365992546, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1690, "year_label": "1690 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – The planet Uranus is first sighted and recorded, by England's first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogs it as a star 34 Tauri.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369486553#October–December", "title": "1690", "revid": 1369486553, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1720, "year_label": "1720 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 10", "text": "February 10 – Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal for England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358044251#January–March", "title": "1720", "revid": 1358044251, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1742, "year_label": "1742 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 – Edmond Halley dies; James Bradley succeeds him as Astronomer Royal of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360184270#January–March", "title": "1742", "revid": 1360184270, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1762, "year_label": "1762 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 – James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806393#Deaths", "title": "1762", "revid": 1340806393, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1767, "year_label": "1767 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The first annual volume of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, produced by British Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gives navigators the means to find longitude at sea, using tables of lunar distance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587024#January–March", "title": "1767", "revid": 1365587024, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}