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Hamilton Key Dates
- 4th of August 1805: Hamilton was Born in Dublin
- 22nd of October 1832: Predicts conical refraction
- 15th of August 1835: Knighted at the BAAS meeting
- 12th of December 1837: Elected as President of the Royal Irish Academy
- 16th of October 1843: Discovers Quaternions and scratches the formula on the Broome Bridge
- 9th of January 1865: Elected as the first foreign member of the National Academy of Science of the USA
- 2nd of September 1865: Hamilton dies
- 17th of September 1958: Eamon De Valera unveils a plaque in honour of Hamilton at Broome Bridge
- 2005: The Hamilton Year