Royal Society
British learned societyThe Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, education and public engagement and fostering international and global co-operation. Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world.
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AI Generated- 28 November 1660The Royal Society is officially founded at a meeting at Gresham College.
- 15 July 1662A royal charter is signed creating the "Royal Society of London".
- 23 April 1663A second royal charter is signed, naming "the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge".
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