Timeline
1635 : Birth on 18th July
1648 : Father died
1653 : Enters Christ Church, Oxford
1662 : Appointed as Curator of the Royal Society
1665 : Micrographia
1672 : Grace Hooke came to live with him
1673 : Henry Hunt arrived
1674 : Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth
1675 : Dispute between Hooke and the Dutch scientist Huygens concerning the
invention of the balance-spring watch.
Publication of "Description of
Helioscopes" with a postscript about his invention of the balance-spring
mechanism. July Tom Gyles
1676 : Helioscopes
Thomas Shadwell's play, The Virtuoso, satirising The Royal
Society and, so Hooke felt, himself.
Fire in Southwark.
Harry Hunt arrived.
1677
: Lampas
Henry Oldenburg's death. Hooke succeeded him to the post of Secretary of
the Royal Society, while still maintaining his responsibilities as
Curator.
Secretary of the Royal Society, 1677-83.
1678 : Publication of his treatise on elasticity De Potentia Bestitutiva or Of
Spring,
upon which is based today's Hooke's Law.
Cometa
Suicide
of brother John in Newport, I.O.W.
1687 : Something of a turning point in his life with the death of Grace and arguments with Isaac Newton
1695 : victory over Cutler (or his heirs, to be more exact)
1703 : Died on 3rd. March. Interred originally in St. Helens churchyard, Bishopgate.