Science & Discovery
4,006 sourced entries filed under science & discovery, split by century. Each century below opens the full list for that stretch of time.
By century
- Science & Discovery in the 16th century BC — 8 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 7th century BC — 11 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 6th century BC — 11 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 4th century BC — 12 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 2nd century BC — 10 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 1st century BC — 11 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 1st century — 14 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 2nd century — 18 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 4th century — 13 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 5th century — 9 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 6th century — 8 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 7th century — 16 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 9th century — 13 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 10th century — 9 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 11th century — 18 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 12th century — 14 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 13th century — 21 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 14th century — 14 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 15th century — 41 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 16th century — 72 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 17th century — 211 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 18th century — 398 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 19th century — 853 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 20th century — 1,642 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 21st century — 559 entries
A line from each of the last few centuries
- 1552In Italy, Bartolomeo Eustachi completes his Tabulae anatomicae, presenting his discoveries on the structure of the inner ear and heart, although, for fear of the Inquisition, it will not be published until 1714.source
- 1664May 9 – Robert Hooke discovers Jupiter's Great Red Spot.source
- 17607 March – HDMS Amack and HDMS Falster are launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.Denmarksource
- 1857W. C. Stewart publishes The Practical Angler.Scotlandsource
- 1960September 8 – In Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (which had been activated by NASA on July 1).source
- 2012October 14 – Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance, during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 128,000 ft (24 mi) over Roswell, New Mexico in the United States.source