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Edmund (or Edmond) Halley (1656-1742), English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.

Halley, born on October 29th, 1656 at Haggerston, London, published papers on the Solar System and sunspots; whilst an undergraduate at The Queens College at Oxford.

On leaving Oxford, in 1676, he visited St Helena where his additions to the star map earned him comparison with Tycho Brahe. Halley was the first to successfully predict the return, in 1758, of the comet which bears his name.

Halley was a friend of Isaac Newton and helped to convince him to write the "Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis" (1687).

In 1720, Halley was appointed Astronomer Royal, a position which he held until his death on January 14th, 1742.

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1656.Oct.29		Birth of Edmund Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (-1742)

1676		English astronomer Edmund Halley leaves Queens College and travels to St Helena

1678.Dec.03		Edmund Halley recieves an MA degree from Queen\'s College, Oxford

1687		Publication of Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis by Isaac Newton

1720		Edmund Halley appointed Astronomer Royal

1742.Jan.14		Death of Edmund Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist

1759.Mar		Perihelion (closest solar approach of the orbit) of Halley\'s Comet, boldly predicted by Edmund Halley after whome it is named to appear in 1757
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