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Carl Linnaeus

Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)

14 dated entries naming Carl Linnaeus, drawn from 13 separate years between 1707 CE and 1783 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Carl von Linné in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1707May 23 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (died 1778)source
  • 173212 May to 10 October - Carl Linnaeus performs the Expedition to Lapland.source
  • 1734Carl Linnaeus conduct his trip to Dalarna.source
  • 1735Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae.source
  • 174115 May - Carl Linnaeus travel to Öland.source
  • 1744October 12 – The creator of binomial nomenclature for the identification of plant and animal species, Carl Linnaeus, is selected as president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, succeeding the late Anders Celsius, who had devised the centigrade measurement of temperature.source
  • 1745Hortus Upsaliensis by Carl von Linnésource
  • 1751Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus publishes his Philosophia Botanica, the first textbook of descriptive systematic botanical taxonomy, and the first appearance of his binomial nomenclature.source
  • 17531 May - Species Plantarum by Carl Linnaeus.source
  • 1753May 1 – Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus (adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants).source
  • 1755The brine shrimp Artemia salina is first described, in Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ.source
  • 1758January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (Animalia) of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature, introducing binomial nomenclature for animals to his established system of Linnaean taxonomy. Among the first examples of his system of identifying an organism by genus and then species, Linnaeus identifies the lamprey with the name Petromyzon marinus. He introduces the term Homo sapiens. (Date of January 1 assigned retrospectively.)source
  • 1778January 10 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (born 1707)source
  • 1783Erasmus Darwin begins publication of A System of Vegetables, a translation of Linnaeus in which he coins many common English language names of plants.source

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