Birth of Edward Walter Maunder
Birth of Edward Walter Maunder
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Edward Walter Maunder Biography and Timeline
Follow Edward Walter Maunder through 4 dated historical records for Great Britain.
Edward Walter Maunder, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1851–1904Years on this page
1851
1894
Maunder Minimum
Shows the presence of a prolonged sunspot minimum in the 17-18th century in a paper published in 1894, the period, recognised initially by Sporer, bears the name Maunder minimum
Sunspots
Shows the presence of a prolonged sunspot minimum in the 17-18th century in a paper published in 1894, the period, recognised initially by Sporer, bears the name Maunder minimum
1904
Sunspots
Observed that the solar latitudes at which sunspots occur varies in a regular way over the course of an 11 year cycle & in 1904 publishes his results in the form of the "butterfly" diagram. Edward Maunder suggests that the Sun had changed from a period in which sunspots all but disappeared from the solar surface to a renewal of sunspot cycles starting in 1700
Records, sources and methodology
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