Timeline

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Timeline

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1- Gresham College. Robert Hooke lived in lodgings on the premises.
2 - Main area of coffee houses, which Robert Hooke frequented.
3 - St. Helen's Church, where Robert Hooke was buried.
  
Timeline
 
1635 - Born in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight.
1648 - Moved to London and developed his artistic skills in the studio of the painter Sir Peter Lely. Accepted into Westminster school by Dr.Richard Busby, headmaster.
1653 - Took up a poor scholar’s place at Christ Church, Oxford. Employed by the anatomist Dr. Thomas Willis as a chemical assistant.
1657 - Developing springs and spiral springs instead of pendulums in his development of the pocket watch. He describes it as a "circular Pendulum".
1658 - Paid assistant to the scientist Robert Boyle, remaining in Boyle's employ until 1662.
1662 - With the help of Boyle, Hooke secured the job as Curator of Experiments for the Royal Society, which he held from 1662-77 at £30/year plus the privilege of lodging at Gresham College. His role was to conduct three to four major experiments each week to be reported on and/or demonstrated to the Royal Society.
1663 - Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1664 - Appointed Lecturer on mechanics (Cutlerian Lectures), £50/year-but he had trouble collecting this money and had to take Cutler to court. Developed spring-balance clock.
1665 - Appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, £50/year. Published Micrographia. Plague in London. Hooke, in company with the scientist, Wilkins, retire to Durdans, near Epsom to continue various experiments.
1666 - Published a work on the nature of comets, entitled Cometa. The Great Fire of London. Hooke was appointed surveyor of London, to reestablish property lines and to supervise the rebuilding, along with Sir Christopher Wren, from 1666 - 1676. Designed many buildings including Montague House, the Royal College of Physicians, Bedlam and Bethlehem Hospital.
1672 - First confrontation between Hooke and Newton, prompted by Newton's paper demonstrating that of white light being a composite of other colours.
1675 - Dispute between Hooke and 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.
1676 - Thomas Shadwell’s successful play,The Virtuoso, satirising The Royal Society and, so Hooke felt, himself.
1677 - Henry Oldenburg's death. Hooke succeeded him as Secretary of the Royal Society (1677-83), while maintaining responsibilities as Curator.
1678 - Publication of his treatise on elasticity, De Potentia Bestitutiva or Of Spring, upon which Hooke’s Law is based.
1684 - Major confrontation between Hooke and Newton, concerning the former's involvment in the latter's Principia
1703 - March 3. Death of Robert Hooke, having been blind and bedridden for the last year of his life.
 
Source: Anon, 'The Life of Robert Hooke'. A more detailed timeline can be found here.