Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03

Thomas Wright Biography and Timeline

Follow Thomas Wright through 1 dated historical records for Great Britain.

Thomas Wright, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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Milky Way

Science / Astronomy

In a treatise Immanuel Kant draws on earlier work by Thomas Wright, speculates (correctly) that the Milky Way might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars, held together by gravitational forces akin to the Solar System but on much large

Records, sources and methodology

These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.