Daniel Defoe vs Isaac Newton
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Compare the life timelines of Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) and Isaac Newton (1643–1727) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 67 years, from 1660 to 1727.
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Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)
- — Born in London Verified
- — Educated at a dissenting academy in Newington Green Verified
- — Married Mary Tuffley Verified
- — Established himself as a merchant and went bankrupt Verified
- — Pilloried and imprisoned for The Shortest Way with the Dissenters Verified
- — Founded and wrote the periodical The Review Verified
- — Published Robinson Crusoe Verified
- — Published Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year Verified
- — Died in London Verified
Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- — Born in Woolsthorpe, England Verified
- — Appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge
- — Published Principia Mathematica Verified
- — Became Warden, then Master, of the Royal Mint
- — Elected President of the Royal Society
- — Died in Kensington, London Verified