This post is a basic timeline of physics. There are 32 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- 5th century BC: Leucippus and Democritus propose the existence of atoms
- 1589-1592: Galileo Galilei performs falling object experiments
- 1609-1619: Johannes Kepler discovers the laws of planetary motion
- 1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- 1704: Isaac Newton publishes Opticks
- 1801: Thomas Young performs the double-slit experiment
- 1805: John Dalton publishes atomic weight estimates
- 1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
- 1861-1862: James Clerk Maxwell publishes Maxwell's equations
- 1895: Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
- 1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radiation
- 1896: Ludwig Boltzmann publishes a statistical interpretation of thermodynamics
- 1897: J.J. Thompson discovers the electron
- 1900: Max Planck discovers quanta and the Planck constant
- 1905: Albert Einstein discovers special relativity
- 1910: Albert Einstein discovers general relativity
- 1911: Ernst Rutherford discovers the nucleus of the atom
- 1913: Niels Bohr publishes the Bohr model of the atom
- 1925: Erwin Schrodinger discovers the Schrodinger equation
- 1927: Werner Heisenberg discovers the uncertainty principle
- 1927: Georges Lemaitre proposes the big bang theory
- 1928: Paul Dirac discovers the Dirac equation and antimatter
- 1932: James Chadwick discovers the neutron
- 1948: Richard Feynman introduces Feynman diagrams
- 1957: Hugh Everett III proposes the many-worlds interpretation
- 1964: Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig discover the quark
- 1967: Stephen Weinberg and Abdus Salam discover the standard model
- 1968: Gabriele Venziano discovers string theory
- 1974: Stephen Hawking discovers Hawking radiation
- 1995: Edward Witten discovers M-Theory
- 2012: Higgs Boson is discovered at CERN
- 2016: Gravitational waves are discovered by LIGO
