Ada Lovelace
1815–1852 · Person
Mathematician who wrote the first algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine — regarded as the first computer programmer.
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- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
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Around 1815
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- Charles Darwin (1809)
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- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)