* 1640 – Robert Plot, English naturalist ( d. 1696 )

Several assassination attempts were made on James, notably the Main Plot and Bye Plots of 1603, and most famously, on 5 November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot, by a group of Catholic conspirators, led by Sir Robert Catesby, which caused more antipathy in England towards the Catholic faith.

* December 13 – Robert Plot, British naturalist ( d. 1696 )

* April 30 – Robert Plot, British naturalist ( b. 1640 )

* The historian and naturalist, Robert Plot, publishes his Natural history of Staffordshire, a collection of illustrations and texts detailing the history of the county.

In 1586 he attended a gathering at a country house in the company of Father Henry Garnett ( later executed for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot ) and the Catholic poet Robert Southwell.

The museum opened on 24 May 1683, with naturalist Robert Plot as the first keeper.

Following a promotion to Attorney General he led the prosecution in several notable cases, including Robert Devereux, Sir Walter Raleigh and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.

This event, first recorded by Robert Plot, occurs when the sun sets behind The Cloud, subsequently partially reappearing in the hollow of the hill's steep northern side, before setting again.

During the next two years, Black had leading roles for famed directors as an aspiring Hollywood actress in John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust, as a country singer in Robert Altman's Nashville and as a kidnapper in what turned out to be Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot.

Harrison Ainsworth, in his 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, wrote about the local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned by Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby in Ordsall Hall's Star Chamber.

Among those held there were John Feckenham, the last Abbot of Westminster, and later two of the key participants in the Gunpowder Plot, Robert Catesby and Francis Tresham.

Robert Catesby ( b. in or after 1572 – 8 November 1605 ), was the leader of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Sir Robert Cecil exonerated him from complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, but he never gained permission to visit England and spent the rest of his life in relative obscurity.

Robert Catesby, leader of the Gunpowder Plot, was a descendant.

Prior to this, according to Robert Plot, it was performed on Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Twelfth Day, in addition to the local Wakes Monday-though upon its revival in 1660 it was confined to the latter alone.

* The first fossilised bone of what is now known to be a dinosaur is discovered in England by Robert Plot, the femur of a Megalosaurus from a limestone quarry at Cornwell near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

The fragment was sent to Robert Plot, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and first curator of the Ashmolean Museum, who published a description in his Natural History of Oxfordshire in 1676.

In 1684, he was appointed assistant to Robert Plot, the Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and replaced him as Keeper in 1690 ; he held this post until 1709.

Robert Catesby, leader of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was a native of Lapworth, a village in Arden.

He was intimate with Robert Catesby and others, and according to Father Garnet expressed an opinion some few months before the Gunpowder Plot that the Romanists had a good opportunity of making good their claims by taking up arms against the King.

One of the few reviewers from a major music magazine to review Demolition Plot J-7 upon its release, Robert Christgau of the Village Voice gave the EP a two-star honorable mention, citing " Forklift " as a highlight.

Many of the streets of the Charterfields housing development, built during the 1970s, adopted the names of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, such as Catesby Drive ( Robert Catesby ), Digby Road ( Sir Edward Digby ), Keyes Drive ( Robert Keyes ), Tresham Road ( Francis Tresham ), Ambrose Crescent ( Ambrose Rokewood ), Monteagle Drive ( Lord Monteagle-William Parker ) and Rokewood Close ( Ambrose Rokewood ).

* Robert Boyle publishes Nova experimenta physico-mechanica, setting forth the law bearing his name.

* John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg Shorthand.

* Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria in English and French, making the ancient city of Baalbek in Syria known to the West.

* Welsh-born mathematician Robert Recorde publishes The Whetstone of Witte in London, containing the first recorded use of the equals sign and also the first use in English of plus and minus signs.

* Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

* Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Palmyra ; otherwise Tedmor in the desart in English and French, making the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra known to the West.

* July 14 – CIA leak scandal: Washington Post columnist Robert Novak publishes the name of Valerie Plame, blowing her cover as a CIA operative.

* 1965: # Robert D. Workman of the U. S. Navy Experimental Diving Unit ( NEDU ) publishes an equation for computing decompression requirements suitable for implementing in a dive computer, rather than a pre-computed table.

* 1951 — The research group of Robert Robinson with John Cornforth ( Oxford University ) publishes their synthesis of cholesterol, while Robert Woodward ( Harvard University ) publishes his synthesis of cortisone.

* Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.

* Robert Baron publishes his plagiarized work Pocula Castalia, stealing mainly from the minor poems of John Milton issued in 1645.

* Plagiarist Robert Baron publishes his Deorum Dona, a masque, and Gripus and Hegio, a pastoral, which draw heavily on the poems of Edmund Waller and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.

On June 17, 1980, the Star Tribune announced it would cease publishing Harper's Magazine after the August 1980 issue ; however, on July 9, 1980, John R. MacArthur and his father, Roderick, obtained pledges from the directorial boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Atlantic Richfield Company, and CEO Robert Orville Anderson to amass the one-and-a-half million dollars needed to establish the Harper's Magazine Foundation that currently publishes the magazine.

The Southern Review, a literary journal co-founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks and located on the campus of Louisiana State University, publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress by established and emerging writers.

It also publishes sermons from a wider spectrum of evangelicals of past generations, including Hyman Appelman, Harry A. Ironside, Bob Jones, Sr., R. A. Torrey, Robert G. Lee, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, T. De Witt Talmage, and George Truett.

For example the U. S. group publishes the newspaper Workers Vanguard, which is known for its acerbic running commentary on the activities of other leftist groups, its sarcastic wit, and its obituaries of leftist figures whose lives often are inadequately analyzed and / or memorialized in the mainstream media, recently including Bill Epton, Richard Fraser, Robert F. Williams, and Myra Tanner Weiss.

* 1906 – Robert Hunter publishes " Poverty ", describing the 10 million Americans living in poverty

* 1844 (- 1849 )-George Robert Gray head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum publishes Genera of Birds ( 1844 – 49 ), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf.

* Scottish surgeon Robert Kerr publishes The Animal Kingdom, the first two volumes of an English translation of Linnaeus ' Systema Naturae.

* Robert Remak publishes Untersuchungen über die Entwickelung der Wirbelthiere in Berlin, providing evidence for cell division, which is supported ( but not acknowledged ) by Rudolf Virchow.