Scientific Revolution Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    "New World"

    Columbus discovered "New World"
    Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy, Whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.
  • Nov 18, 1507

    Copernicus

    Copernicus Commentariolus begins to be circulated. 1507-1514
    Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; Italian: Nicolò Copernico; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer, priest and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
  • Jan 1, 1517

    Reformation

    Luther starts the Reformation.
    The Protestant Reformation began in Germany, when Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses, calling for reform of the Christian Church.
  • Jan 1, 1542

    "On The Revolution Of The Heavenly Spheres"

    Publication of “On The Revolutions Of The Heavenly Spheres”
    De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.
  • Dec 13, 1545

    Council Of Trent

    Council of Trent Counter reformation begins.
    1545-1563
    The Council of Trent, delayed and interrupted several times because of political or religious disagreements, was a major reform council and the most impressive embodiment of the ideals of the Counter-Reformation. It would be over 300 years until the next Ecumenical Council. When announcing Vatican II, Pope John XXIII stated that the precepts of the Council of Trent continue to the modern day, a position that was reaffirmed by Pope Paul VI.
  • Giordano Bruno

    Giordano Bruno burned at the stake of heresy
    February 17, 1600 (aged 51–52)
  • Kepler publishes Astronomia Nova

    Kepler publishes Astronomia Nova (contains his first and second laws)
  • Galileo's Dicoveries

    Galileo's discoveries with the telescope.
  • Thirty years war

    Thirty years war breaks out
    1618–1648
  • Newton's Theory Of Gravity

    Newton published the book "Principia" first published on 5th, of July 1687.