Gauss timeline

1777 – Gauss is born

1780 - Corrected his father’s mistaken calculations (start of genius mind)

1792 – Education in Carolinum a honored university (with Duke’s scholarship)

1795 – Education in University of Göttingen

1798 –17-gon by ruler and compass (numeric theory)

1801- Numeric theory published

1805 – Marries Johanna

1806 - 1^st son

1807 - Gauss became director of observatory

1808 – 1^st daughter

1809 – 2^nd son

1809 – Widowed

1809 - Theoria motus corporum celestium

1810 – Marries Friederica

1811- 3^rd son

1813 – 4^th son

1816 – 2^nd daughter

1818- Geodesic survey of the state of Hanover

1829 - Discovered the non-Euclidean geometry

1833 - Constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph

1855 - Gauss dies