On this day in history
July 1
Graeco-RomanScience
- 69 CEGraeco-Roman
The legions in Egypt swore allegiance to Vespasian on this day, later kept as the official start of a reign that founded the Flavian dynasty.
- 1952 CEGraeco-Roman · discovered
Michael Ventris announced on BBC radio that he had deciphered Linear B, showing the script recorded the earliest known form of the Greek language.
- 1646 CEScience · born
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a mathematician and philosopher who co-founded the calculus and built an early mechanical calculator, was born in Leipzig on 1 July 1646.
Trace this life → - 1858 CEScience
On 1 July 1858, joint papers by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace outlining natural selection were communicated to the Linnean Society of London and read aloud; neither author attended.
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