{"slug": "christopher-wren", "label": "Christopher Wren", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wren", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170373", "qid": "Q170373", "description": "English architect (1632–1723)", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1632, 1723], "span_label": ["1632 CE", "1723 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "st-paul-s-cathedral", "label": "St Paul's Cathedral", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "great-fire-of-london", "label": "Great Fire of London", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "january", "label": "January", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "isaac-newton", "label": "Isaac Newton", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edmond-halley", "label": "Edmond Halley", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "robert-hooke", "label": "Robert Hooke", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "royal-society", "label": "Royal Society", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-st-paul-s-cathedral", "label": "Old St Paul's Cathedral", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1632, "year_label": "1632 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 20", "text": "October 20 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1723)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358528035#October–December", "title": "1632", "revid": 1358528035, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1660, "year_label": "1660 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren, and decide to found \"a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning\" (later known as the Royal Society).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986539#October–December", "title": "1660", "revid": 1365986539, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1673, "year_label": "1673 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 14", "text": "November 14 – Christopher Wren is knighted in England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992268#October–December", "title": "1673", "revid": 1365992268, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1675, "year_label": "1675 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – Reconstruction of St Paul's Cathedral begins in London under the direction of Christopher Wren, to replace the portion destroyed by the Great Fire of London nine years earlier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992546#April–June", "title": "1675", "revid": 1365992546, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1684, "year_label": "1684 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January", "text": "January – Edmond Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion attributed to Sir Isaac Newton. Hooke's claim is that in a letter to Newton on 6 January 1680, he first stated the inverse-square law.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366005630#January–March", "title": "1684", "revid": 1366005630, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1711, "year_label": "1711 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – The rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral in London to a design by Sir Christopher Wren is declared complete by Parliament; Old St Paul's had been destroyed by the 1666 Great Fire of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364260988#October–December", "title": "1711", "revid": 1364260988, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1723, "year_label": "1723 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1632)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350255771#Deaths", "title": "1723", "revid": 1350255771, "section": "Deaths"}}]}