Invention Timeline - Benjamin Banneker, American Mathematician; Assisted Ellicott in Surveying Washington and the Boundaries of the District of Columbia
b. November 9, 1731 and d. October ? 1806
American negro mathematician. He prepared and published almanacs for Maryland and the adjoining States. Assisted Ellicott in surveying the site of Washington and the boundaries of the District of Columbia.
It isn’t the thing you are doing,
But the way that you do it, my friend;
Not the course, but the way of pursuing,
On which your successes depend.
There are prizes in every vocation,
And he is the fortunate man
Who frets not, because of his station,
But does just the best that he can.
—True Worth Wins: Lillie Sheldon
In this theatre of man’s life, it is reserved only
for God and angels to be lookers-on.
—Pythagoras
3761 B. C.—The era of the Jews begins.
3101 B. C. (or 3348)—The Hindu era begins.
45 B. C.—The Roman year is again corrected by Julius Cæsar; he makes it 3651/4 days.
27 B. C., February 14—The Augustan era begins, 727 years after the foundation of Rome.
1 A. D., January 1—The Christian era commences with the traditional date of the birth of Christ (4 (?) B. C.).
632, June 26—The beginning of the Yezdegerd or Persian era, with the election of King Yezdegerd III. (Formerly of universal use in Persia, and now used by the Parsees in India.)
