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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Sweden's national academy of sciences

11 dated entries naming Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, drawn from 10 separate years between 1739 CE and 1895 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1739June 13 – (June 2 Old Style); The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is founded in Stockholm, Sweden.source
  • 1741Et ankommit bref om såningsmachinen under namn af Lotta Triven by Charlotta Frölich (who thereby becomes the first woman to be published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences).source
  • 174131 March - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is given its rules.source
  • 1744October 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.source
  • 1746Eva Ekeblad reports her discovery, of how to make flour and alcohol from potatoes, to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.source
  • 1748The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences makes Eva Ekeblad its first female member.source
  • 175320 September – Inauguration of the new observatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.source
  • 1774Maria Christina Bruhn presents her invention, a package for gunpowder to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.source
  • 1783Princess Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova is elected an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the first female foreign member and its second female member, after Eva Ekeblad.source
  • 1786May 15 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist and agronomist, first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (born 1724)source

19th century

  • 1895December 11 – Svante Arrhenius becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data about the sensitivity of global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide (the "Greenhouse effect"), as he presents his paper "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon The Temperature of the Ground" to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.source

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