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| | ==Achievements, listed by age at which they were made== | | ==Achievements, listed by age at which they were made== |
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| | + | * '''7''' - Yehudi Menuhin gives his first solo violin performance with the San Francisco Symphony in 1923 |
| | + | * '''8''' - [[Pablo Picasso]] paints his "Picador" |
| | + | * '''8''' - [[Frederic Chopin]] plays his first public piano performance, having already authored two polonaises (G minor and B flat major) at age 7. |
| | + | * '''12''' - [[Blaise Pascal]] had secretly worked out the first twenty-three propositions of Euclid by himself. |
| | * '''13''' - [[John]] wrote the first draft of the [[Gospel of John]], the greatest written work of all time.<ref>[[Mystery:Was John a Child?]]</ref> | | * '''13''' - [[John]] wrote the first draft of the [[Gospel of John]], the greatest written work of all time.<ref>[[Mystery:Was John a Child?]]</ref> |
| | * '''13''' - [[Joan of Arc]] heard the heavenly voices that prompted her to lead [[France]] to victory in the [[Hundred Years War]] | | * '''13''' - [[Joan of Arc]] heard the heavenly voices that prompted her to lead [[France]] to victory in the [[Hundred Years War]] |
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| | * '''16''' - Jean-François Champollion, can speak a dozen languages and delivers a paper on the Coptic language to the Grenoble Academy. By 20, he can speak another 13 languages and at 22 he deciphers the [[Rosetta Stone]]. | | * '''16''' - Jean-François Champollion, can speak a dozen languages and delivers a paper on the Coptic language to the Grenoble Academy. By 20, he can speak another 13 languages and at 22 he deciphers the [[Rosetta Stone]]. |
| | * '''18''' - [[Mary Shelley]] writes Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus) - it is only published when she is 21, however. | | * '''18''' - [[Mary Shelley]] writes Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus) - it is only published when she is 21, however. |
| | + | * '''20''' - Carl Friedrich Gauss makes his first mathematical discoveries, which will lead to the completion of "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", his magnum opus, at the age of 21. |
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| | (add more, sorted by age and then alphabetically) | | (add more, sorted by age and then alphabetically) |
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