Inventor Alan Clark was granted his patent for the telescope.
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Pope Innocent III brought together the council for the Fourth Council of the Lateran, which was held at the Lateran Palace in Rome, Italy.
German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time.
Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe witnessed the supernova SN 1572.
The first college fraternity, The Flat Hat Society, was formed in the Raleigh Tavern at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Daniel McCree patented the portable fire escape in the US.
