1791 – On the 26^th December Charles Babbage was born.

1795 – He became ill.

1801 – At the age of ten he began to have violent fevers.

1801 – 1810 – A clergyman, and other private tutors taught Babbage throughout these years.

1810 – Babbage went to Cambridge to start a proper education.

1814 – Graduated from Peterhouse College with a B.A.

1814 – Married to Georgiana Whitmore.

1815 – Moved from Cambridge to London.

1815 – 1816 – Wrote two major papers on functional equations.

1816 – Made a fellow of the Royal Society of London.

1820 – Made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

1820 – He had finished his six-wheel model; he convinced the government to fund his venture.  He planned to make it bigger, and better.

1822 – Charles designed the Difference Engine.

1823 – He designed and made more inventions.  He made the Difference Engine 2, and many other bigger and better inventions.

1823 – He visited Mount Vesuvius and received a gold medal from the Astronomical Society for the Difference Engine.

1825 – With Herschel conducted experiments on magnetism.

1827 – He became the Lucasian Professor of math's at Cambridge.  He stayed there for twelve years, but never taught.

1828 – His wife – Georgiana died.

1828 – He applied for more money, and moved his manufacture to 1 Dorset Street.

1830 – He published a savage attack on the Royal Society and it’s leadership.  He campaigned to reform in British science

1831 – Babbage received a letter from Jarvis, claiming that Clement was out of money to fund his project.

1832 – With less money he made a smaller version of Difference Engine 2, it was named Difference Engine 1.

1832 – Charles wrote a book on the economy of machinery and manufactures.

1834 – Invented the principal of the analytical engine the forerunner of the modern electronic computer.

1834 – Designed the Analytical Engine.

1836 – Babbage designed another of his inventions – the Analytical Engine.

1842 – Government could no longer fund his projects, and the Difference Engine 2 was never completed.

1848 – The Earl of Rosse attempted to fund the Analytical Engine, but it fell through.

1871 – On the 18^th October in Dorset Street Charles Babbage died.