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4th Century BCE

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Aristotle presented evidence for a spherical Earth.

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16th Century

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Nicolaus Copernicus formulated a heliocentric model of the solar system.

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20th July 1969

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Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the Moon.

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1687

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Isaac Newton published 'Principia Mathematica', formulating the laws of motion and universal gravitation.

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1609

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Galileo Galilei made improvements to the telescope.

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1543

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Copernicus published his heliocentric theory.

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17th Century

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Johannes Kepler proposed the laws of planetary motion.

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1781

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William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

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1846

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Discovery of Neptune based on predictions by Urbain Le Verrier.

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1600

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Giordano Bruno proposed an infinite universe with a multitude of worlds.

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1929

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Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding.

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1930

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Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.

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21st Century

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The discovery of thousands of exoplanets.

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14th January 2005

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Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.

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1915

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Albert Einstein published the general theory of relativity.

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1610

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Galileo Galilei discovered the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

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1961

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Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

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4th January 2004

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NASA's Spirit Rover landed on Mars.

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2006

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The International Astronomical Union redefined the term 'planet', which led to the reclassification of Pluto.

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1989

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The Voyager 2 probe flew past Neptune.

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