astronomy




Timeline of Events
YearMonthDayEvent
13800000000 BC The Big Bang
3340 BC Nov 30 Earliest Believed Record Of Eclipse
240 BC May 25 Perihelion Passage Of Halley's Comet Recorded
1604 Oct 09 The Most Recent Supernova Was Supernova 1604
1618 Mar 08 Kepler Discovers Law Of Planetary Motion
1655 Mar 25 Huygens Discovered Saturn's Giant Moon Titan
1675 Mar 04 John Flamsteed , First Astronomer Royal
1781 Mar 13 William Herschel Discovers Uranus
1787 Jan 11 Herschel Discovered Titania, Oberon, The Uranus Moons
1836 May 15 'Baily's Beads' Observed By Francis Baily During Eclipse
1846 Oct 10 Neptune's Moon, Triton, Discovered By Lassell
1851 Oct 24 Lassell Discovers Moons Of Uranus
1877 Aug 12 Asaph Hall Discovers The Mars Moon Deimos
1877 Aug 18 Asaph Hall Discovers Martian Moon Phobos
1930 May 01 The Dwarf Planet Pluto Is Officially Named
1965 Jul 14 Mariner 4 Photographs Mars
1966 Dec 18 Walker Discovers Saturn Moon Epimetheus
1990 Sep 24 Saturn's Periodic Great White Spot
1993 Mar 24 Discovery Of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
1995 Jul 23 Comet Hale-Bopp Discovered And Seen
2002 Sep 25 Vitim Event In Siberia; Possible Bolide Impact
2004 Sep 29 Asteroid 4179 Passed By The Earth
2009 Mar 07 Kepler Observatory Designes Is Launched
2012 Jul 11 Pluto's Fifth Moon, Styx, Discovered
2013 Jul 01 Neptune's Moon S/2004 N 1 Is Discovered
2013 Nov 03 Solar Eclipse From Africa To US
2014 Apr 15 Blood Moon Occurs During Total Eclipse
2014 Apr 17 NASA Confirms Earth-size Planet Discovered
2014 Oct 19 Comet Passes Within 140,000 Km Of Mars
2015 Mar 20 Solar Eclipse, Equinox, Supermoon On Same Day