1738 Euler writes on curves of genus 1 considered by Fermat and Frenicle
1750 Euler writes on elliptic integrals
23 December 1751 – 27 January 1752: Birth of the theory of elliptic functions, according to later remarks of Jacobi, as Euler writes on Fagnano's work.[5]
1829 Jacobi, Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum, introduces four theta functions of one variable
1835 Jacobi points out the use of the group law for diophantine geometry, in De usu Theoriae Integralium Ellipticorum et Integralium Abelianorum in Analysi Diophantea[9]
1921 Solomon Lefschetz shows that any complex torus with Riemann matrix satisfying the necessary conditions can be embedded in some complex projective space using theta-functions
^Richelot, Essai sur une méthode générale pour déterminer les valeurs des intégrales ultra-elliptiques, fondée sur des transformations remarquables de ces transcendantes, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris. 2 (1836), 622-627; De transformatione integralium Abelianorum primi ordinis commentatio, J. Reine Angew. Math. 16 (1837), 221-341.