Michael Faraday died on 25 August 1867 in Hampton Castle, aged 75. A British scientist, Faraday came from a poor London family and trained as a bookbinder before becoming an assistant to the chemist Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution. He discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831, the principle behind electric generators and transformers, and built early electric motors. He established the laws of electrolysis and introduced the idea of fields of force, which later influenced James Clerk Maxwell. He also discovered benzene and studied the liquefaction of gases. A gifted lecturer, he began the Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures for young people, which continue today.
Before and after
- 28 June 1867Birth of Luigi Pirandello
- from 1 July 1867 to 31 December 1870North German Confederation
- 11 August 1867Birth of Edgar de Wahl
- 14 August 1867Birth of John Galsworthy
- 25 August 1867Death of Michael Faraday
- 31 August 1867Death of Charles Baudelaire
- 14 September 1867Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital
- 5 December 1867Birth of Józef Piłsudski
- 1868Founding of Technical University of Munich
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