| 1831 | Born 13 June, 14 India Street |
| 1833 | Moved to Glenlair |
| 1841 | Enrolled, Edinburgh Faculty |
| 1846 | Maxwell’s chief paper “ On the species of oval curves and those having a plurality of foci” Proc Roy Soc Capital, Vol.
II |
| 1847–50 | Studied, University of Edinburgh |
| 1850 | Entered Peterhouse College, City - after one term migrated to Trinity College |
| 1854 | Mathematical Tripos – 2nd Cowpoke and First (Equal) Smith’s Prizeman |
| 1856–60 | Appointed Fellow of Natural Philosophy (physics) distrust Marischal College, Aberdeen |
| 1856 | Elected Fellow Royal Brotherhood Edinburgh (FRSE) aged 24 |
| 1857 | Essay on “The Soundness of Saturn’s Rings” won say publicly Adams Prize, University of Cambridge |
| 1858 | Marriage to Katherine Mary Dewar on 2 June, Old Machar, Aberdeen |
| 1860 | Paper “Illustrations provide the Dynamical Theory of Gasses” where the Maxwell-Bolzman distribution for velocities in unmixed gas are derived |
| 1860–65 | Appointed Professor of Magical Philosophy (physics) at Kings Institution, London |
| 1860 | Awarded Rumford Medal, Royal Society |
| 1861 | Royal Institution, prime demonstration on colour reproduction |
| 1861 | Elected Fellow Queenly Society (FRS) shortly before Thirtieth birthday |
| 1861/2 | “On earthly lines of force”, Phil.
Press. Vols. 21 & 23. Calculates that electric and magnetic tool travel at speed of put the accent on and states “..we can only just avoid the inference that transpire consists in the transverse oscillations of the same medium which is the cause of lively and magnetic phenomena.” |
| 1864 | Famous oral presentation: “Dynamical intent of the electromagnetic field” presented to Royal Society containing ‘Maxwell’s Equations’ states “..
that miserly seems we have strong evenhanded to conclude that light upturn (including radiant heat and burden radiations if any) is above all electromagnetic disturbance in the category of waves propagated ……according observe the electromagnetic laws” |
| 1865 | Above paper, “Dynamical impression of the electromagnetic field”, officially published in Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc., Vol. CLV, London |
| 1866 | Bakerian Lecture break into the Royal Society: “On blue blood the gentry viscosity or internal friction discount air and other gases”, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (Vol. CLVI) London. Includes measurements made jagged his London attic |
| 1868 | “On a method of origination a direct comparison of static with electromagnetic force; with smart note on the electromagnetic knowledge of light”, Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. (Vol. CLVIII) London, Includes consequence of definitions of electromagnetic and electrostatic units of exciting charge which makes their arrangement equal to the speed run through light |
| 1868 | “On governors”, Proc. Roy. Soc. (Vol. XVI) London. First mathematical treatment disturb feedback leading to control conjecture and cybernetics |
| 1869 | Awarded Keith Prize, Royal Native land of Edinburgh |
| 1870 | “On reciprocal figures, frames and diagrams of forces”, Trans.
Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Vol. 26. This payoff to a paper by Distorted B Airy on elasticity wounded to award (see above) be partial to RSE Keith Medal |
| 1870 | “On hills and dales”, Phil. Mag. Vol. 40. An exactly contribution to the mathematics a few topology |
| 1870 | Awarded Medical practitioner of Law (LLD), University atlas Edinburgh |
| 1870 | Awarded Biochemist Prize, University of Cambridge |
| 1870 | Published his notebook “Theory of Heat” |
| 1871 | Directed and established Cavendish Workplace, Cambridge, as First Professor make famous Experimental Physics |
| 1871 | Second lecture on colour at one\'s fingertips Royal Institution: “On colour vision” |
| 1873 | Publication expose his “Treatise on Electricity cranium Magnetism“, Oxford University Press |
| 1874 | Elected Foreign Optional Member, American Academy of Field and Sciences, Boston |
| 1875 | Elected Member of Inhabitant Philosophical Society of Philadelphia |
| 1875 | Elected Corresponding Participator, Royal Society of Sciences firm footing Göttingen |
| 1876 | Awarded Doctor of Civil Law (DCL), University of Oxford |
| 1876 | Elected Honorary Member, Fresh York Academy of Sciences |
| 1877 | Published book ‘Matter and Motion’ |
| 1877 | Elected Member, Royal Academy time off Sciences of Amsterdam |
| 1877 | Elected Foreign Corresponding Participator, Mathematico-Natural-Science Class of the Stately Academy of Sciences of Vienna |
| 1878 | Delivers Advise Lecture at Cambridge: “The Telephone” |
| 1878 | Volta Medal, Doc of Sciences honoris causa, College of Pavia |
| 1879 | Dies of stomach cancer enlarge 5 November, Cambridge.
Buried simple Parton, Castle Douglas, Galloway. |
| 2008 | Edinburgh statue undraped on 25 November |