Ada Lovelace was born on 10 December 1815 in London. An English mathematician, Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron, though she barely knew him, and was educated in mathematics and science by her mother. She became friends with Charles Babbage and in 1843 published a translation of an article on his proposed Analytical Engine, to which she added extensive notes. These included a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers on the machine, often regarded as the first computer program, and the insight that such a machine could manipulate symbols and even compose music, not just numbers. She died of cancer at 36. The programming language Ada was later named in her honour.
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- from 9 June 1815 to 1 January 1915Congress Poland
- from 10 June 1815 to 24 August 1866Founding of German Confederation
- 18 June 1815Battle of Waterloo
- from 3 July 1815 to 3 August 1818Russian Rurik Expedition
- 10 December 1815Birth of Ada Lovelace
- from 1816 to 1858Seminole Wars
- 1816The Year Without a Summer
- 21 April 1816Birth of Charlotte Brontë
- 1 June 1816Founding of Austrian National Bank
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