Sir Isaac Newton
"English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, most famous for his law of gravitation, was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century" (bio.com).
Born on December 25, 1642 (Julian Calendar) in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
~1645 (3 yrs old)- Newton's mother remarried and left him with his grandmother.
~1654 (12 yrs old)-Newton's mother returned with her three children from her second marriage after her husband died.
1661-Newton enrolled at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College.
1665-Newton left college because the Great Plague was rampant in Europe.
1666-Observation of the Fall of the Apple
1667-Newton returned to Cambridge
1672-“From A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton”
1678-Emotional Breakdown
1679-d**h of his Mother
July 5, 1687 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("the Principia") was published including one of his most famous theories, Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
1704-Publish of his book Opticks
1705-Newton was knighted
Died March 20, 1726 (age 84)