1661-06-05 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1668-07-07 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1672-02-08 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1676-02-15 Isaac Newton writes to Robert Hooke “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” (O.S. 5 Feb)
1684-12-10 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley
1687-07-05 Isaac Newton's great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlining his laws of motion and universal gravitation
1697-01-26 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1705-04-16 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge