Listing of On This Day Entries

Pope Urban VIII dies 1644

Charles I of England is executed 1649

The Royal Society is founded 1660

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica first published 1687

Carl Linnaeus is born 1708

Isaac Newton dies 1727

Publication of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae 1758

Carl Linnaeus dies 1778

British entomologist Dru Drury dies 1804

Charles Darwin is born 1809

William Wilberforce dies 1833

Origin of the Species published 1859

Charles Darwin dies 1882

Vincent Van Gogh dies 1890

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