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1629 CE - 1695 CE: Life of the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Christiaan Huygens.
1629 CE: Christiaan Huygens is born in The Hague, the Netherlands.
1645 CE: Christiaan Huygens joins the University of Leiden to study law and mathematics.
1657 CE: Christiaan Huygens makes the first working example of a pendulum clock.
1657 CE: Christiaan Huygens publishes his Horologium.
1658 CE: Christiaan Huygens presents his disocvery of Saturn's rings and the moon of Titan.
1663 CE: Christiaan Huygens is made a fellow of the Royal Society in London.
1666 CE: Christiaan Huygens is made a fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris.
1673 CE: Christiaan Huygens publishes his Horologium Oscillatorium.
1675 CE: Christiaan Huygens creates the first working example of a chronometer using balance spring.
1684 CE: Christiaan Huygens publishes his Astroscopia Compendiaria.
1686 CE: Chrsitiaan Huygens builds an aerial telescope.
1690 CE: Christiaan Huygens publishes his Treatise on Light.
1690 CE: Christiaan Huygens publishes his Discourse on the Course of Gravity.
1690 CE: Christiaan Huygens publishes his wave theory of light.
1695 CE: Christiaan Huygens dies in The Hague.
1698 CE: Christiaan Huygens publishes his Kosmotheoros or The Celestial Worlds Discovered.