Historical place archive

Euclid in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Euclid in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

6 records6 event labels1 people2011–2025

Historical events in Euclid

2011

2011
Euclid Selected for Implementation
Yannick Mellier · Astronomy

Mellier leads the Euclid Consortium as ESA selects Euclid for implementation to investigate cosmic acceleration, dark energy, dark matter and large-scale structure.

2023

1 July 2023
Euclid Dark Energy Mission Launch
Yannick Mellier · Astronomy

Mellier leads the Euclid Consortium as the spacecraft launches on a mission designed to map cosmic structure and investigate the nature of dark energy.

November 2023
Euclid First Images Validate Survey Capability
Yannick Mellier · Astronomy

Mellier oversees the Euclid science consortium as the mission's first public images demonstrate the image quality required for future dark-energy and weak-lensing measurements.

2024

14 February 2024
Euclid Dark Universe Survey Begins
Yannick Mellier · Astronomy

Mellier leads the scientific consortium as Euclid begins its nominal six-year survey to measure billions of galaxies and trace dark energy over cosmic time.

23 May 2024
Euclid First Science Results
Yannick Mellier · Astronomy

Mellier presents Euclid's first science papers and performance results, demonstrating that the mission is ready for precision studies of the dark universe.

2025

19 March 2025
Euclid First Survey Data Release
Yannick Mellier · Astronomy

Mellier's Euclid Consortium releases the mission's first survey data, opening a large galaxy dataset that prepares the way for future dark-energy cosmology analyses.

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About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match France and Euclid. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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