Important Events Of May-24

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He was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker.
He discovered the mercury-glass thermometer in 1917.
He is widely known for the discovery of the Fahrenheit temperature unit.
As the Fahrenheit temperature unit is named by in his name.
A pioneer of exact thermometry,he helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer (first practical, accurate thermometer) and Fahrenheit scale (first standardized temperature scale to be widely used.

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She was a British colonizer of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 20th of June 1837 and the first Empire of British India on 1 May 1876.
His reign was 63 years and 7 months.
A period of time that is centered on her reign is known as the Victorian period.
The United Kingdom became a constitutional monarchy when the Victoria administration was in charge.
Her time is the highlight of the industrial revolution . This has created social, economic , and technological developments in the UK. During his reign the British Empire expanded and reached its peak, and was the leading world power of the time.
she is called “grandmother of Europe”.

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He is astronomer, mathematician and scientist, physician and economist.
Nicholas Copernicus explored that the planets were centered around the Sun.
He is best known as the first astronomer to posit the idea of a heliocentric solar system—a system in which the planets and planetary objects orbit the sun.
He is a multi-faceted member of the European Renaissance , mathematician, astronomer, lawyer, doctor of law, doctor of four languages, translator, pedophagus, artist,Catholic guru, governor, state ambassador and economist.
In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money – a key concept in economics – and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham’s law.
He created a revolutionary policy based on solar eclipse and created a new development in astronomy.

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