41 events with tag "discovery"
106 BC
ID: 5377
Gold of Tolosa discovered - Romans loot 100,000 pounds gold and 110,000 pounds silver from Celtic temples, treasure mysteriously vanishes
ID: 5377
850
ID: 5686
Coffee discovered in Ethiopia - legend says goat herder Kaldi notices energized goats eating coffee berries
ID: 5686
968
ID: 5838
Rammelsberg silver discovered at Goslar - massive silver vein found in Harz Mountains, transforms Ottonian economy
ID: 5838
1000
ID: 3715
Leif Erikson reaches North America - Vikings land in Vinland (Newfoundland), first Europeans in Americas
ID: 3715
1168
ID: 5844
Freiberg silver discovered in Saxony - 'First silver rush', town founded, becomes Europe's largest silver source
ID: 5844
1260
ID: 5846
Kutná Hora silver discovered in Bohemia - becomes Europe's richest silver source, funds Bohemian kingdom's power
ID: 5846
1279
ID: 5974
December 9, 1279
Charles II of Anjou discovers relics of St. Mary Magdalene at Saint-Maximin - claims divine revelation, finds sarcophagus with inscription 'Here lies the body of the blessed Mary Magdalene'
ID: 5974
1492
ID: 85
October 12, 1492
Columbus reaches Americas - two worlds meet, changing history forever
ID: 85
1530
ID: 5481
Paracelsus coins term 'zinc' (Zink) and describes properties of the metal, contributing to metallurgy
ID: 5481
1751
ID: 542
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovers nickel in Sweden
ID: 542
1766
ID: 570
Henry Cavendish discovers hydrogen gas using mathematical analysis
ID: 570
1774
ID: 585
Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers chlorine in Sweden
ID: 585
1781
ID: 610
William Herschel discovers Uranus using mathematical predictions - first planet found by calculation
ID: 610
1797
ID: 664
Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin discovers chromium - new possibilities in steel alloys and pigments
ID: 664
1808
ID: 694
Humphry Davy isolates barium, calcium, magnesium, and strontium
ID: 694
1820
ID: 732
Hans Christian Oersted discovers electromagnetic induction
ID: 732
1826
ID: 768
Otto Unverdorben discovers aniline - later crucial for synthetic dye production
ID: 768
1858
ID: 914
August Mobius discovers Mobius strip - challenges intuitive concepts of geometry
ID: 914
1879
ID: 1022
Constantin Fahlberg discovers saccharin in Ira Remsen's laboratory at Johns Hopkins
ID: 1022
1895
ID: 1119
Wilhelm Rontgen discovers X-rays at University of Wurzburg - revolutionizes medicine
ID: 1119
1896
ID: 1126
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity through mathematical analysis of phosphorescence
ID: 1126
1897
ID: 1131
J.J. Thomson discovers electron using mathematical analysis of cathode ray deflection
ID: 1131
1900
ID: 5071
Discovery of Dunhuang Cave 17 - Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu finds sealed 'Library Cave' with 50,000 manuscripts including Manichaean texts
ID: 5071
1904
ID: 5073
German Turfan expeditions begin - discover extensive Manichaean texts in multiple languages, illuminated manuscripts with distinctive art
ID: 5073
1928
ID: 1353
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin, though large-scale production wouldn't begin until the 1940s
ID: 1353
1929
ID: 5074
Coptic Manichaean codices discovered in Medinet Madi, Egypt - includes Kephalaia, Psalm-Book, and Homilies, revolutionizes understanding
ID: 5074
1939
ID: 1484
Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discover nuclear fission, opening nuclear chemistry frontiers
ID: 1484
1943
ID: 1527
Hofmann discovers psychoactive properties of LSD
ID: 1527
1945
ID: 1549
Discovery of 'Osenberg List' at Bonn University cataloging prominent Nazi scientists
ID: 1549
1965
ID: 1822
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover cosmic microwave background radiation
ID: 1822
1979
ID: 1973
Dan Shechtman discovers quasicrystals, revolutionizing crystallography and materials science
ID: 1973
1980
ID: 5077
Living Manichaean community discovered in Fujian - Chinese scholars find active practitioners of 'Mingjiao' (Religion of Light), direct descent from medieval Manichaeism
ID: 5077
1985
ID: 2035
Buckminsterfullerene (C60) is discovered, opening the field of fullerene chemistry
ID: 2035
1988
ID: 2058
Vaughan Jones discovers Jones polynomial for knots
ID: 2058
1991
ID: 2090
Carbon nanotubes are discovered by Sumio Iijima, launching nanotechnology materials science
ID: 2090
2012
ID: 3217
Higgs boson discovery announced at CERN
ID: 3217
2013
ID: 3254
Modern research confirms vitamin C 'extraordinarily sensitive to killing' tuberculosis bacteria
ID: 3254
2019
ID: 4561
Ramanujan Machine AI discovers new continued fractions and formulas for mathematical constants
ID: 4561
2023
ID: 3384
AI systems begin contributing to mathematical conjecture generation and pattern discovery
ID: 3384
2023
ID: 4562
H-Net and similar architectures discovered by AI - 1,773 autonomous experiments surpass human designers
ID: 4562
2024
ID: 3398
Advanced AI systems begin contributing to mathematical research and discovering new theorems
ID: 3398