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Group: Gobir (Hausa city state)
People: Edmond Halley
Topic: Amorgos (1312), Battle of
Location: Santander Cantabria Spain

Edmond Halley

English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
Years: 1656 - 1742

Edmond Halley FRS (8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742) is an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's comet.

Regions
Central Europe (1656 - 1742)
West Europe (1656 - 1742)
North Europe (1656 - 1742)
Southwest Europe (1656 - 1742)
Northern North America (1656 - 1742)
West Indies (1656 - 1742)
Macaronesia (1656 - 1742)