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01 May 1513
Portuguese |
Portuguese (exploration and cart) Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares lands on Lintin Island in the Pearl River estuary. |
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01 May 1518
Juan de Grijalva |
Juan de Grijalva (exploration) Juan de Grijalva arrives at the Tabasco region of Mexico. |
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01 May 1522
Johannes Werner |
death Johannes Werner Johannes Werner, German polymath (born 1468) |
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01 May 1528
sweating sickness |
sweating sickness (medicine) The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England, also spreading to northern Europe. |
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01 May 1592
Thomas Cavendish |
death Thomas Cavendish Sir Thomas Cavendish, English explorer (born 1560) |
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01 May 1598
Tycho Brahe |
Tycho Brahe (astronomy) Tycho Brahe's star catalogue Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica, listing the positions of 1,004 stars, is published. |
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01 May 1606
Vanuatu |
Vanuatu (exploration) Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the islands of Vanuatu; believing them to be Australia, he names them La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. |
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01 May 1637
encyclopedist |
encyclopedist (publications) Chinese encyclopedist Song Yingxing publishes his Tiangong Kaiwu ("Exploitation of the Works of Nature"). |
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01 May 1665
John Woodward |
birth John Woodward John Woodward, English naturalist and physician (died 1728) |
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01 May 1714
Brook Taylor |
Brook Taylor (mathematics) Brook Taylor publishes a paper, written in 1708, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society which describes his solution to the center of oscillation problem. |
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01 May 1715
Thomas Savery |
death Thomas Savery Thomas Savery, English engineer, inventor of a steam pump (born c. 1650) |
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01 May 1720
St George's Hospital |
St George's Hospital (medicine) First patient admitted to the Westminster Public Infirmary, predecessor of St George's Hospital, London. |
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01 May 1735
French Geodesic Mission |
French Geodesic Mission (earth sciences) French Geodesic Mission (including Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, Louis Godin, Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa, Joseph de Jussieu and Jean Godin) sets out for Ecuador. |
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01 May 1741
Vitus Bering |
Vitus Bering (exploration) Vitus Bering sets out from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to map the coasts of Siberia and Alaska. |
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01 May 1792
George Vancouver |
George Vancouver (exploration and surv) George Vancouver explores Puget Sound and becomes the first European to see Mount Rainier. |
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01 May 1796
Alexandre Guy Pingré |
death Alexandre Guy Pingré Alexandre Guy Pingré, French astronomer and naval geographer (born 1711 |
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01 May 1813
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger |
death Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, German zoologist (born 1775) |
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01 May 1818
Lyon Playfair |
birth Lyon Playfair Lyon Playfair (died 1898), Scottish chemist. |
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01 May 1820
John Herapath |
John Herapath (chemistry) John Herapath draws up a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases. |
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01 May 1825
Johann Balmer |
birth Johann Balmer Johann Balmer (died 1898), Swiss mathematician. |
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01 May 1829
Cyrill Demian |
Cyrill Demian (technology) Cyrill Demian patents a version of the accordion in Vienna. |
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01 May 1837
Samuel Morse |
Samuel Morse (technology) Samuel Morse patents his telegraph and exhibits it to the United States Congress. |
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01 May 1839
Eyre's expeditions |
Eyre's expeditions (exploration) Start of Eyre's expeditions to the interior of South Australia. |
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01 May 1847
Hildegard Björck |
birth Hildegard Björck Hildegard Björck, Swedish-born pioneer of women's medical education (died 1920) |
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01 May 1850
John Tyndall |
John Tyndall (physics) John Tyndall and Hermann Knoblauch publish a report on "The magneto-optic properties of crystals, and the relation of magnetism and diamagnetism to molecular arrangement". |
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01 May 1852
Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
birth Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (died 1934), Spanish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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01 May 1859
John Walker |
death John Walker John Walker (born 1781), English chemist. |
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01 May 1866
William Huggins |
William Huggins (astronomy) William Huggins studies the emission spectrum of a nova and discovers that it is surrounded by a cloud of hydrogen. |
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01 May 1881
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
birth Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (died 1955), French paleontologist and philosopher. |
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01 May 1888
Nikola Tesla |
Nikola Tesla (technology) Nikola Tesla is granted a United States patent for the induction motor. |
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01 May 1889
Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Johns Hopkins Hospital (medicine) Johns Hopkins Hospital opens in Baltimore, Maryland, with senior founding staff comprising pathologist William Henry Welch, surgeon William Stewart Halsted, gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly and internist William Osler, who originates the concept of a residency for training junior doctors. |
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01 May 1890
Herbert Akroyd Stuart |
Herbert Akroyd Stuart (technology) Herbert Akroyd Stuart, in collaboration with Charles Richard Binney and Richard Hornsby & Sons, files a British patent for Improvements in Engines Operated by the Explosion of Mixtures of Combustible Vapour or Gas and Air, the first successful design of hot bulb engine, which will be produced as the heavy-oil Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine. |
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01 May 1893
rolling lift bridge |
rolling lift bridge (technology) William Scherzer (dies July 20, 1893) files a patent for his design of rolling lift bridge. |
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01 May 1895
H. G. Wells |
H. G. Wells (other s) Publication of H. G. Wells' first "scientific romance", the novella The Time Machine (serial publication completed and first book editions). |
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01 May 1899
National Trust |
National Trust (biology) The National Trust in the United Kingdom acquires its first part of Wicken Fen, making it the country's oldest wetland nature reserve. |
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01 May 1918
G. K. Gilbert |
death G. K. Gilbert G. K. Gilbert (born 1843), geologist. |
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01 May 1925
Rhenium |
Rhenium (chemistry) Rhenium is discovered by Walter Noddack and Ida Tacke in Berlin, the last stable, non-radioactive naturally-occurring element to be found. |
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01 May 1925
Scott Carpenter |
birth Scott Carpenter Scott Carpenter (died 2013), American astronaut. |
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01 May 1940
Alan Turing |
Alan Turing (computer science) August – Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman at the United Kingdom Government Code and Cypher School, Bletchley Park, design the British Bombes to help decrypt Wehrmacht Enigma machine signals. |
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01 May 1951
Carl A. Wiley |
Carl A. Wiley (technology) Carl A. Wiley publishes the concept of the solar sail. |
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01 May 1956
Gilbert Plass |
Gilbert Plass (climatology) Gilbert Plass publishes his seminal article "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change". |
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01 May 1956
Minamata disease |
Minamata disease (medicine) Minamata disease epidemic is identified in Japan. |
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01 May 1962
J. C. R. Licklider |
J. C. R. Licklider (computer science) J. C. R. Licklider of BBN co-presents a paper on "On-Line Man-Computer Communication". |
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01 May 1964
John George Kemeny |
John George Kemeny (computer science) John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first program created in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language that will eventually be included on many computers and even some games consoles. |
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01 May 1967
René Favaloro |
René Favaloro (medicine) Dr René Favaloro performs the first saphenous vein autograft in coronary artery bypass surgery, at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States. |
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01 May 1972
Magnavox |
Magnavox (computer science) Magnavox release the first home video game console which can be connected to a television set – the Magnavox Odyssey, invented by Ralph H. Baer. |
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01 May 1977
Maryam Mirzakhani |
birth Maryam Mirzakhani Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian-born mathematician |
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01 May 1986
monoclonal antibody |
monoclonal antibody (biology) First reported methods for constructing a monoclonal antibody containing parts from mouse and human antibodies, a required first step toward the development of humanized antibodies used later as medical therapeutics (such as Infliximab). |
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01 May 1988
Chronic fatigue syndrome |
Chronic fatigue syndrome (medicine) The initial case definition of Chronic fatigue syndrome (the "Holmes definition") is published, displacing the name Chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome. |
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01 May 1995
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem |
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (mathematics) Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is published in Annals of Mathematics. |
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01 May 1998
robotically assisted |
robotically assisted (physiology and medic) Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr performs the first robotically assisted coronary artery bypass surgery, at the Leipzig Heart Centre in Germany using the da Vinci Surgical System; later in the year, Dr. Ralph Damiano performs on 17 patients in Pennsylvania. |
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01 May 2001
Tim Berners-Lee |
Tim Berners-Lee (computer science) Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues name the Semantic Web. |
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01 May 2002
2-protons radioactivity |
2-protons radioactivity (physics) Experimental discovery of a new type of radioactivity: the 2-protons radioactivity. · |
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01 May 2006
Kikuo Takano |
death Kikuo Takano Kikuo Takano (b. 1927), poet and mathematician. |
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01 May 2014
Radhia Cousot |
death Radhia Cousot Radhia Cousot, 67, French computer scientist, co-inventor of abstract interpretation |
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