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Michael Faraday is born
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The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered
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World population becomes 1 billion
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Becomes an apprentice to George Riebau
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Becomes Humphry Davy’s assistant
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Injured in a nitrogen trichloride explosion
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Starts working at the Royal Institution
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Makes safe miner's lamp
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Frankenstein is published
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Discovers 2 chlorides of carbon
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Discovers electromagnetism
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Made the first electric motor
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Marries Sarah Barnard
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Invents the rubber balloon
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Elected member of the Royal Society and turned down being president twice
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Discovers isobutylene
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Discovers benzene
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Becomes part time professor at The Royal Military Academy
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Discovers electromagnetic induction
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He creates Faraday’s laws of electrolysis
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Telegraphy is patented
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Charles Dickens writes Oliver Twist
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Refuses Knighthood
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Studies effects of magnetic fields on spectral lines
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The safety pin is invented
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World’s first oil refinery in Romania
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Big Ben construction completed
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Pony Express starts
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
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Michael Faraday dies