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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Department of weird banners, Cambridge edition

The University of Cambridge is celebrating its 800th birthday this year, and so all around the town are banners like this one:

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The obvious question, of course, is what is the significance of those dates? The 1209 and 2009 dates are obvious. And to find out about the others, the obvious place to look is the website at the bottom of the banner, which has a handy timeline. The problem is that although the timeline includes no fewer than 80 different years between 1209 and 2009 (not including the ones at both ends), only one of them coincides with the seven in-between years on the banner: 1446, which marks the founding of King's College. So what are the others?

Posted by Felix at 13:02 EST

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See the interactive graphic. 1381 is the Peasants Revolt, 1584 the founding of Emmanuel College, etc.

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Felix, 1687 is the year during which Newton's laws of motion were first published, in Principia Mathematica.

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1787 is the year when a Cambridge man, Thomas Clarkson, founded the British abolitionist cause.

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1787 is the year when a Cambridge man, Thomas Clarkson, founded the British abolitionist cause.

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2 obvious dates:
1859: Darwin, 'Origin of species'
1988: Stephen Hawking, 'A Brief History of Time'

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