{"slug": "carl-linnaeus", "label": "Carl Linnaeus", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1043", "qid": "Q1043", "description": "Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1707, 1778], "span_label": ["1707 CE", "1778 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [], "items": [{"year": 1707, "year_label": "1707 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346936133#April–June", "title": "1707", "revid": 1346936133, "section": "Births › April–June"}}, {"year": 1735, "year_label": "1735 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365121192#Date_unknown", "title": "1735", "revid": 1365121192, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1744, "year_label": "1744 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – The creator of binomial nomenclature for the identification of plant and animal species, Carl Linnaeus, is selected as president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, succeeding the late Anders Celsius, who had devised the centigrade measurement of temperature.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370823870#October–December", "title": "1744", "revid": 1370823870, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus publishes his Philosophia Botanica, the first textbook of descriptive systematic botanical taxonomy, and the first appearance of his binomial nomenclature.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#Date_unknown", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1753, "year_label": "1753 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus (adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362641691#April–June", "title": "1753", "revid": 1362641691, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "The brine shrimp Artemia salina is first described, in Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360194188#Date_unknown", "title": "1755", "revid": 1360194188, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1758, "year_label": "1758 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (Animalia) of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature, introducing binomial nomenclature for animals to his established system of Linnaean taxonomy. Among the first examples of his system of identifying an organism by genus and then species, Linnaeus identifies the lamprey with the name Petromyzon marinus. He introduces the term Homo sapiens. (Date of January 1 assigned retrospectively.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366206062#January–March", "title": "1758", "revid": 1366206062, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1778, "year_label": "1778 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371073991#Deaths", "title": "1778", "revid": 1371073991, "section": "Deaths"}}]}