Age of Discovery Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1271

    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo
    He want on a journey with his father on the silk road. Marco Polo trded and collected jewels, silk, and ivory and worte a book about his travels
  • Jan 1, 1503

    nicolaus coperniccus

    nicolaus coperniccus
    fist astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmolgy that displaced the earth from the center of the universe
  • Jan 1, 1534

    Martin Luther

    Martin Luther
    Martin luther completed the translation of the old testament in Germany in 1534. He impacted the german community by translating the bible to german.
  • Jan 1, 1534

    Jacques Cartier

    Jacques Cartier
    He is a french explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
  • Jan 1, 1536

    John Calvin

    John Calvin
    Calvins first addition of his major work "The institutes of the christian religion" was published in Basel, Switzerland.
  • Sep 27, 1540

    ignatius of loyola

    ignatius of loyola
    found the jesuits(the society of jesus)
  • Jan 1, 1575

    Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe
    King Frederick II tried to keep brahe in denmark. He offered him his own island and some financial support to study astronomy there. He saw comets and a supernova before that and studied them .
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    He was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution