Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.

English politician, writer, historian and antiquarian (1717–1797)

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was an English Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.

Unplanned, fortunate discovery

Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754.

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