Michael Faraday

  • Michael Faraday is born

  • The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered

    World Event
  • World population becomes 1 billion

    World Event
  • Becomes an apprentice to George Riebau

  • Becomes Humphry Davy’s assistant

  • Injured in a nitrogen trichloride explosion

  • Starts working at the Royal Institution

  • Makes safe miner's lamp

  • Frankenstein is published

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  • Discovers 2 chlorides of carbon

  • Discovers electromagnetism

  • Made the first electric motor

  • Marries Sarah Barnard

  • Invents the rubber balloon

  • Elected member of the Royal Society and turned down being president twice

  • Discovers isobutylene

  • Discovers benzene

  • Becomes part time professor at The Royal Military Academy

  • Discovers electromagnetic induction

  • He creates Faraday’s laws of electrolysis

  • Telegraphy is patented

  • Charles Dickens writes Oliver Twist

  • Refuses Knighthood

  • Studies effects of magnetic fields on spectral lines

  • The safety pin is invented

    World Event
  • World’s first oil refinery in Romania

    World Event
  • Big Ben construction completed

    World Event
  • Pony Express starts

    World Event
  • Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

    World Event
  • Michael Faraday dies