Bayes, Thomas

1702 - Thomas Bayes was born in London.

1719 - Enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to study logic and theology: as a Nonconformist, Oxford and Cambridge.

1731 - Published two works in his lifetime: Divine Benevolence, or an Attempt to Prove That the Principal End of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of His Creatures.

1936 - An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst.

1742 - Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society on the strength of the Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions.

1761 - Bayes died 17th of April in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Known for having formulated a special case of Bayes' theorem, which was published posthumously.