Elements by Year of Discovery

Can you name the elements on the periodic table by the year in which they were discovered?

Year it was first isolated, not necessarily date of actual discovery

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_element_discoveries

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Year	Element
~9000 BCE	Copper
~7000 BCE	Lead
~6000 BCE	Gold
~5000 BCE	Iron
~5000 BCE	Silver
~3750 BCE	Carbon
~3500 BCE	Tin
~2000 BCE	Sulfur
~1500 BCE	Mercury
~1000 BCE	Zinc
~815 CE	Arsenic
~815 CE	Antimony

Year	Element
~1000	Bismuth
1669	Phosphorus
1735	Cobalt
1735	Platinum
1751	Nickel
1766	Hydrogen
1772	Nitrogen
1774	Chlorine
1774	Manganese
1777	Oxygen
1781	Molybdenum
1782	Tellurium
1783	Tungsten
1797	Chromium
1802	Palladium
1802	Tantalum
1803	Iridium
1803	Osmium

Year	Element
1804	Rhodium
1807	Potassium
1807	Sodium
1808	Barium
	Boron
	Calcium
	Magnesium
	Strontium
1811	Iodine
1817	Cadmium
1817	Selenium
1821	Lithium
1823	Silicon
1824	Aluminium
1824	Zirconium

Year	Element
1825	Bromine
1825	Titanium
1828	Beryllium
1841	Uranium
1842	Lanthanum
1843	Yttrium
1844	Ruthenium
1861	Rubidium
1862	Thallium
1864	Niobium
1867	Indium
1867	Vanadium
1875	Cerium
1875	Gallium
1879	Erbium

Year	Element
1879	Holmium
1879	Samarium
1879	Scandium
1879	Thulium
1885	Neodymium
	Praseodymium
	Thorium
1886	Fluorine
	Gadolinium
	Germanium
	Terbium
1882	Caesium
1894	Argon
1895	Helium
1898	Krypton

Year	Element
1898	Neon
1898	Xenon
1901	Europium
1902	Polonium
1902	Radium
1903	Actinium
1906	Lutetium
1907	Ytterbium
1909	Radon
1922	Hafnium
1927	Protactinium
1928	Rhenium
1937	Technetium
1939	Francium
1940	Astatine

Year	Element
1940	Neptunium
1941	Plutonium
1944	Americium
1944	Curium
1945	Promethium
1949	Berkelium
1950	Californium
~1950	Dysprosium
1952	Einsteinium
1952	Fermium
1955	Mendelevium
1961	Lawrencium
1966	Nobelium
1969	Rutherfordium

Year	Element
1970	Dubnium
1974	Seaborgium
1981	Bohrium
1982	Meitnerium
1984	Hassium
1994	Darmstadtium
1994	Roentgenium
1996	Copernicium
1999	Flerovium
2000	Livermorium
2002	Oganesson
2003	Moscovium
2004	Nihonium
2009	Tennessine

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