Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, according to the Georgian calendar, on Christmas Day in the manor house in Woolsthrope, England, Isaac was born prematurely. Isaac's father died just three months before his birth. He had a very difficult childhood. Hanna Ayscough Newton, his mother, remarried another man when Isaac was three, and was sent to love his grandparents. After his stepfather died, when Isaac was 11, his mother took him back to live with her in Woolsthrope in Lincolnshire. , where he attended a school called Kings School, Grantham. He came from a family of farmers and was expected to carry on the farming tradition, that's what his mother wanted anyway, until his uncle recognized how smart he was. His mother pulled him from grammar school in Grantham where he had demonstrated insufficient work in academics. His report cards describe him as “distracted” and “inactive.” His uncle thought he should be prepared for college. Shortly thereafter he attended his uncle's old college, Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661. Isaac had to earn his living by waiting because he was poor and the others were rich. He wanted to do a law degree at Cambridge. Isaac Barrow who encouraged him and was under his wing, Barrow held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. Newton got his bachelor's degree without achieving much in college, he would have gone on to get his master's degree, but the Great Plague broke out in London and all the students were sent home. This was a truly productive time for Isaac. He conducted experiments on prisms and sunlight. He soon discovered that sunlight was made up of different colors. This ties back to his work on reflecting telescopes. He was also working… in the middle of the paper… he was proclaimed king in parts of Ireland, England and Scotland, where he was crowned after accepting the terms of the Scots. In 1651 he marched into England, but was defeated by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester. Charles then fled to France, where he lived into the sixteen sixties. General George engineered Charles to return the throne to him. In America during Isaac Newton's lifetime, the colonies of New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina were founded. South Carolina was the site of the first European settlement in 1526, but became a colony in 1663 when the King Charles granted the territory to his supporters. New Jersey was granted by the Duke of York to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley in 1664. William Penn was granted by Pennsylvania to offset a debt owed to his father.