Event:
Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
Isaac Newton History:
December 1, 1967 - Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
March 31, 1727 - Isaac Newton, English Mathematician
January 26, 1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
July 5, 1687 - Isaac Newton's 'Principia' published by Royal Society in England
February 8, 1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
July 7, 1668 - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
June 5, 1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
December 25, 1642 - Isaac Newton, born in Grantham, England, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer
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