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Frederick Herschel Frederick William Herschel

Date

13th Mar 1781
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Time

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244 Years ago

The planet Uranus was discovered by William Herschel.


William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 from the garden of his house at 19 New King Street in Bath, Somerset, England (now the Herschel Museum of Astronomy), and initially reported it (on 26 April 1781) as a comet.

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