Chronology
These Dates are in Julian, with the new year starting on January 1st
1642
Galileo Dies
Newton's Father dies before he is before he is born
Newton is born on Christmas day at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire.
1643
Newton is baptized
1646
Newton's mother Hannah remarries Barnabas Smith ad moves to Smith's manor
Newton's grandparents inhabit Woolsthorpe to raise him.
1653
Newtons stepfather dies and Hannah returns to Woolsthorpe
1655
Newton goes to the Free Grammar school in grantham
1660
Newton continues at Grantham to prepare for University
1661
Newton is admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge
1662
Newton experiences a religious crisis and composes a "list of sins"
1664
Newton explores Des Cartes and outlines the Questiones Quadaem Philosophicae, a set of study topics
Newton is elected to a scholarship at Trinity
1665
Newton graduates from Trinity with a Bachelor of the Arts
Plague hits Britain, Newton returns to Woolsthorpe
In isolation Newton begins work that would inspire his later work in mathematics and optics
1666
Newton expands on the topics of Questiones Quadaem Philosophicae. He formulates his thoery of the calculus in bursts of compulsive exploration.
Newton improves Galileo's calculation of the force of gravity by first calculating centrifugal force.
Newton builds on ideas of Hooke, Des Cartes, and Huygen. Experimenting with prisms results in Of Colors.
1667
Newton returns to Trinity and is elected a fellow
1669
Newton publishes On analysis by Infinite Series
Newton is elected Lucasian professor of mathematics
Newton describes in writing the reflective telescope
1672
Newton's reflecting telescope is reviewed by the Royal Society
Newton sends a written account of his Theory of Colors to the Royal Society
Newton is elected a fellow of the Royal Society
Newton's interest in mathematics and optics wanes, while his interest in chemistry and theology comes to the fore.
1679
Newton is present at his mother's death. He stays at Woolsthorpe through the year to set her affairs in order.
1684
Halley, Wren, and Hooke attempt to apply the inverse square relation to the celestial movements.
Edmund Halley consults Newton about elliptical orbits
1693
Described as Newton's "black year." Newton falls into depression, pursues bureaucratic positions in London
1696
Newton is appointed Warden of the Mint and moves to London
1700
Newton is apointed Master of the Mint
1701
Newton resigns his chair and fellowship at Cambridge
1703
Newton is elected president of the Royal Society
1704
Newton presents Opticks to the Royal Society
1711
The priority dispute begins with Leibniz over the invention of the calculus
1727
Newton dies and is buried at Westminster Abbey. Newton's writings at the time reveal his rejection of Trinitarianism
1728
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdomes Amended is published posthumously