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Feb 12, 1543
Copernicus
Claims the universe is heliocentric -
Adam Smith
Publishes Wealth of Nations -
James Watt
Perfects Steam Engine -
James Hargeaves
Spinning Jenny -
Eli Whitney
Invents the Cotton Gin -
Robert Fulton
Steam boat inventor -
Factory Act of 1833
Limits work hours for women and children -
Suez Canal
Opens -
Karl Marx
writes The Communist Manifesto -
Marie Curie
Nobel Prize for her work -
Albert Einstein
Article of theory of Relativity
