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| May 16, 1718 | MGA born in Milan, Italy.
She was the eldest child of Don Pietro Agnesi Mariana and Anna Fortunato Brivio. |
| 1727 | At the age of 9, translated from Italian into Latin a long article advocating advanced education for ladies. |
| 1738 (39?) | Propositiones philosophicae published. |
| 1748 | Instituzioni Analitiche ad Uso della Gioventù
Italiana published.
First surviving mathematics publication written by a woman. |
| 1749 | Appointed honorary lecturer at the University of Bologna by Pope Benedict XIV. |
| 1750 | Asserts in a letter to Paolo Frisi that she cannot evaluate one of her brother's works on celestial physics. She wrote Spanish was a language that was "foreign to me." |
| 1752 | Death of her father. |
| 1759 | Posthumous publication of the French translation of Newton's Principia, by Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706 - 1749). |
| Aug. 30, 1775 | Traités élémentaires de calcul différentiel
et de calcul intégral, tr. de l'ital., avec des additions.
Instituzioni translated into French under the auspics of the 'l 'Académie Royale des Sciences. |
| Jan. 9, 1799 | Death at the Pio Albergo Trivulzio in Milan.
This charitable hospice founded by the Blue Nuns is famous throughout Italy. |
