Sir Isaac Newton

Biography

Birth

01/04/1643

Mother leaves young Isaac with his Grandparents for 9 years

4/1646 - 4/1655

Attends Cambridge University

09/1661 - 6/1669

Studies at Home (Due to plague)

08/17/1665 - 02/23/1667

Develops calculus, light theory, laws of planetary motion

Nervous Breakdown; develops theory of planetary motion at home

5/10/1678 - 04/23/1684

Suffers another nervous breakdown

4/23/1693 - 10/23/1693

Death

3/20/1727

Accomplishments

First Invention: Reflecting Telescope

1668

Publishes Principia

7/5/1687

Elected to represent Cambridge in Parliament

4/23/1689

Elected to Warden of the MInt

6/29/1696

Elected President of Royal Society

3/3/1703

Knighted by Queen of England

4/10/1705