Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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on 6/9/1663
Disputatio Metaphysica de Principio Individui (Metaphysical Disputation on the Principle of Individuation), which addressed the principle of individuation
on 12/15/1664
in University of Leipzig
Specimen Quaestionum Philosophicarum ex Jure collectarum (An Essay of Collected Philosophical Problems of Right),[32] arguing for both a theoretical and a pedagogical relationship between philosophy and law
in 1666
in University of Leipzig
University turned down his doctoral application and refused to grant him a Doctorate in Law, most likely due to his relative youth
on 10/15/1666
in University of Altdorf
Disputatio Inauguralis de Casibus Perplexis in Jure (Inaugural Disputation on Ambiguous Legal Cases).
on 12/15/1666
in University of Altdorf
" My thoughts were turned in an entirely different direction"
in 1667
the dismissed chief minister of the Elector of Mainz, Johann Philipp von Schönborn.
in 1669
to visit Hanover proved to have been fateful. Leibniz had declined the invitation
on 1/10/1673
in England
When it became clear that France would not implement its part of Leibnizs Egyptian plan, the Elector sent his nephew, escorted by Leibniz, on a related mission to the English government in London
on 1/15/1673
in London
where he demonstrated a calculating machine that he had designed and had been building since 1670
on 1/15/1673
in London
after demonstrating the machine that was able to execute all four basic operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing)
on 2/12/1673
English mission ended abruptly when news of the Electors death
in 1674
he earliest evidence of its use in his surviving notebooks is 1675
in 1674
in Court of Appeal
Although von Boyneburg died late in 1672, Leibniz remained under the employment of his widow until she dismissed him
in 1675
in Paris
as a foreign honorary member, but it was considered that there were already enough foreigners there and so no invitation came.
in 1676
in England
here Newton accused him of having seen his unpublished work on calculus in advance.
in 1677
at his request he was promoted, a post he held for the rest of his life.
in 1687
by Ernest Augustus, going back to the time of Charlemagne or earlier, hoping that the resulting book would advance his dynastic ambitions.