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Jan 1, 1157
Jacques Cartier
Dies in Saint Malo France were he was born -
Jul 19, 1254
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy in 1254. -
Jul 25, 1298
Marco Polo
On this day Marco polo is captured and sent to prison. While in prison he wrote the book "A Million Lies". -
May 23, 1324
Marco Polo
Marco Polo dies. -
Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry (Portugal)
He was born in Oporto, Portugal. -
Dec 15, 1418
Prince Henry (Portugal)
He created a school where the children learned science, to make maps, and navigate. -
Oct 1, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Born in Genoa, Republic of Genoa. -
Nov 13, 1460
Prince Henry (Portugal)
He died at the age of 66 in Sagres, Algarve, Portugal. -
Jan 1, 1469
Vasco da Gama
He was born in Sines, Kingdom of Portugal. -
Mar 16, 1471
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain. -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
He was born in Toruń (Thorn), Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland -
May 15, 1480
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan is born to Don Roy de Magalhas and Dona Alda. His name in Hispanol is Fernao de Magalhaes. He was born near the city of Porto. He was well educated in his early years and was sent to the palace as a servant in his later years. -
Nov 10, 1483
Martin Luther
Born as Martin Luder on Nov 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany. Baptised after he was born. -
May 13, 1485
Christopher Columbus
He moved to Spain, settling at Palos in Andalusia. -
Dec 1, 1485
Hernan Cortes
Cortes is born in Medellin Spain -
Jan 1, 1491
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier was born -
Dec 24, 1491
Ignatius of Loyola
He was born in Spain as Inigo Lopez. Fun Fact: He was born the year before Christopher Columbus set sail. -
Jan 1, 1492
Vasco de Gama
He became a naval officer, commanded ships and was ordered by King John II to capture French ships in Portugal for taking Portuguese property in France -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
His first voyage began on August 3, 1492. They first landed on an island Columbus named San Salvador. Columbus and his ships visited several other islands including Cuba and Hispaniola. He was about 41 years old when he left. -
Oct 1, 1493
Christopher Columbus
He set sail with 17 ships and over 1,000 men in October, 1493. This was his second voyage. -
Jul 8, 1497
Vasco da Gama
He set sail from Lisbon, Portugal on orders of King Manuel to open up trading routes and bring back spices -
May 30, 1498
Christopher Columbus
He left Spain with six ships. They landed in South America while on this voyage. He was about 47 years old when he left on his third voyage. -
Nov 7, 1502
Christopher Columbus
This was his fourth and final voyage. They left Spain with four ships. -
Jan 1, 1505
Martin Luther
Became a Monk after praying to St. Anne during a close encounter with lighting. -
Jan 1, 1505
Ignatius of Loyola
He joined the army at the age of 18. -
May 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus
He died at the age of (probably) 54 in Valladolid, Crown of Castile. -
Jul 10, 1509
John Calvin
Born as Jean Calvin. Born in the town of Noyon in the Picardy region of France. -
Sep 29, 1513
Francisco Pizarro
Pizarro joined the expedition of Nunez de Balboa across the Isthmus of Panama to discover the Pacific Ocean. -
Sep 15, 1514
Copernicus
He wrote a six page hand-written paper describing his ideas about the sun being the center of the universe, and made it available to only his friends. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther
He changed the cousre by nailing the Ninety-Five Theses to a church door at Wittenburg (Door of All Saints' Church) thus beginning protestent reformation. -
Nov 18, 1518
Hernan Cortes
Cortes lands on the Mexican coast and gains leadership over the Totonics and Tlaxcalans tribes. -
Jun 23, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan convinces the King of Spain that he should let Ferdinand sail. Ferdinand says he will go to the Mollucas around the Western side and find a way through the new world, and reach the Mollucas. -
Mar 27, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan
The Phillipinnos and Magellan have a row. The Row soon turns into a fight. Ferdinand and hisarmy use guns, while he Phillipinnnos use swords, bows and arrows and spears. Ferdinand asks his army to retreat, and board the ships. But in the panic, is left behind and stabbed. -
Mar 25, 1522
Ignatius of Loyola
Invisioned the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus while at a shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat. -
Aug 10, 1522
Martin Luther
Luther had published the German translation of the New Testament in 1522, and he and his assistants completed the translation of the Old Testament in 1534 when the whole Bible was published. He continued to work on refining the translation until the end of his life. -
Jan 1, 1524
Jacques Cartier
Jacques goes with Giovanni da Verrazano to North America -
Dec 23, 1524
Vasco de Gama
He died in Kochim, Portuguese India. -
Apr 11, 1527
Jonh Calvin
In Paris, Calvin first came into contact with the new humanistic learning while preparing for a career as a priest. He met many of the leading humanists of his day. He earned his masters degree at the age of 18. -
Jan 1, 1534
Jacques Cartier
King Francis 1 of France hired him to look or explore the possible passages to Asia -
Jul 20, 1536
John Calvin
In July 1536, Calvin went to Geneva which became the place of his work. He wanted to go to Strasbourg, but the spread of the Habsburg-Valois Wars made him go to Geneva where a Protestant called Guillaume Farel persuaded him to stay. -
Dec 25, 1538
Ignatius of Loyola
Saint Ignatius has his frist mass and cries. -
Sep 27, 1540
Ignatius of Loyola
He founded the Society of Jesus (later known as the Jesuits). -
May 14, 1541
John Calvin
In 1541, added by the city council, Calvin drew up the Ecclesiastical Ordinances. He didn't want the idea of the Medieval Church as contrary to the New Testament. There were be no bishops. All ministers were equal. They had to preach, administer the sacraments and look after the spiritual welfare of the people. -
Jun 26, 1541
Francisco Pizarro
Pizarro was assassinated by followers of Pedro de Almagro (Cortes' captain) who wanted to seize Lima for its wealth. Francisco Pizarro died at Lima, Peru. -
Sep 12, 1541
John Calvin
Returned to Geneva after the Libertines had fallen from power in 1540. It took 14 years before he could fully impose his version of liturgy, doctrine, organisation of the church and moral behavior. -
Apr 15, 1542
John Calvin
He wrote hymns, the most famous being the Old Hundredth. Published the Catéchisme de l'Eglise de Genève (Catechism of the Church of Geneva), which was inspired by Bucer's Kurze Schrifftliche Erklärung of 1534. -
Apr 14, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
His major theory was published in the book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in the year of his death. -
May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
He was 70 years old when he died in Frombork (Frauenburg). -
Feb 18, 1546
Martin Luther
Died. He was 62 years old. -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
He was born as Tyge Ottesen Brahe in Knutstorp Castle, Scania. -
Dec 2, 1547
Hernan Cortes
While living in Spain Cortes passes away. -
Jul 31, 1556
Ignatius of Loyola
While he lived in Rome in 1556, he died from a sickness known as "The Roman Fever," which could have have been Malaria, since Malaria was going around in Italy. He was sixty-five years old. -
Aug 21, 1560
Tycho Brahe
Because of an eclipse, he changed what he was studying from law to astrology. -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
He was born in Strand, London, England. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
He is born in Duchy of Florence, Italy. -
May 27, 1564
John Calvin
He died on 27 May, 1564. He was 54 years old. -
Jan 1, 1571
Tycho Brahe
He constructed a small observatory. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Born in Germany. -
Nov 11, 1572
Tycho Brahe
He proved that a very bright star was a supernova.
This star is now named SN 1572. -
Nov 11, 1572
Tycho Brahe
He discovered a new star. -
Jan 1, 1580
Johannes Kepler
He saw a lunar eclipse. After this though, he was weakened by smallpox. -
Sep 5, 1581
Galileo Galilei
From 1581 to 1585, he studied medicine at the University of Pisa, though more interested in science and mathematics. -
Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon was a leader in science he didnt really invent things he aimed toward what was already invented he invented the modern scientific enterprise. He is Seen as one of the most influencial people in the science feild. -
Rene Descartes
He was born in La Haye en Touraine, Touraine, France -
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brathe meet. -
Tycho Brahe
He died at the age of 54. -
Johannes Kepler
Two days after Tycho's death on October 24, 1601, Kepler was appointed his successor as a mathematician with the responsibility to complete Tycho's unfinished work. -
Johannes Kepler
He made the Kepler's Laws: (1) The Elliptical law 2) The Equal-areas law, and (3) The Harmonic law. The last law came ten years later. (1619) -
Galileo Galilei
He used a telescope to look at the moon, and all the moons of Jupiter. (November 1609 - January 1610) -
Johannes Kepler
This is the supernova he found and studied. -
Rene Descartes
While he was stationed in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany, he experienced a series of three powerful dreams or visions that he later claimed profoundly influenced his life -
Rene Descartes
He returned to France, and it was during a stay in Paris that he composed his first essay on method: Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii (Rules for the Direction of the Mind). -
Francis Bacon
He died at the age of 65 in Highgate, London, England. -
Robert Boyle
He was born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. -
Johannes Kepler
He died at the age of 58. -
Galileo Galilei
He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It was when he was under house arrest that he wrote his finest work, 'Two New Sciences.' He summarized the work he had done forty years earlier, on kinematics and strength of materials -
Rene Descartes
He published part of this work in three essays: Les Météores (The Meteors), La Dioptrique (Dioptrics) and La Géométrie (Geometry), preceded by an introduction, his famous Discours de la Métode (Discourse on the Method). -
Galileo Galilei
He died at the age of 77 in Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy. -
Robert Boyle
He was influenced by Galileo's death and began to study Galileo's work. -
Isaac Newton
He was born in Lincolnshire, England. -
Rene Descartes
He died at the age of 53 in Stockholm, Sweden. -
Isaac Newton
He worked with his assistant Robert Hooke on experiements with an air pump. He also proved that flames need air to survive and so does life. -
Robert Boyle
Boyle's first law states that pressure and volume are inversely proportional. -
Rene Descartes
The Pope placed his works on the Index of Prohibited Books. -
Isaac Newton
He started studying gravity when he was watching his cats under a tree and making notes about light when an apple fell on his head.. -
Robert Newton
He wrote a book called The Origin of Forms and Qualities. -
Isaac Newton
While he studied light, he found out that light is made of many colors, while others thought that the prism they used made the color. -
Robert Boyle
He declined this job offer because he could not swear an oath because of his religious views. -
Isaac Newton
The Principia was published with encouragement and financial help from Edmond Halley. -
Robert Boyle
He died at the age of 64 in London, England. -
Isaac Newton
He died at the age of 84 in Kensington, Middlesex, England.
