In 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte was born on Corsica. When he became emperor of France he was the driving force behind the metric system.

In 1897 The mission for Antartica starts with the departure of the Belgica from Antwerp towards South-America.

In 1970 Venera 7 was launched, as part of the Venera Program.

In 1868, the French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers an unknown yellow spectral line during a solar eclipse in India.

In 1646 John Flamsteed, an English astronomer was born. He was the founder and first director of the Greenwich Observatory.

In 1858  Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace independently publish their theory of evolution

Since 1801, it had been discovered that a large number of “rocks” were floating around in the band between Mars and Jupiter.

1833 - Birth of François Folie, director of the Observatory.

On 12 december 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi receives first transatlantic radio signal at "Signal Hill" in St John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

1962 - Launch of Relay 1, first active communications satellite to orbit Earth.

1900 - Max Planck presents his law of radiation, giving birth to quantum mechanics.
1546 - Birth of Tycho Brahe, famous Danish astronomer.

Eugène Delporte discoverd in 1936 the asteroid number 3534.

1790 - Birth of Leopold I in Coburg. He was the third son of the Duke of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld.