Astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

On 13 March 1781, William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus from the garden of his house at 19 New King Street in Bath, England.

On 26 April 1781, William Herschel presented his manuscript “Of a comet seen on 13 March” to the Royal Society, in which he described the object as “a nebulous star or perhaps a comet.”

On 31 December 1781, the paper was published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society under the title “Account of a Comet.”

This became the first planet discovered using a telescope and the first new planet discovered in modern history.
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