History Timeline

  • 85

    Ptolemy’s Birth

  • Period: 85 to 685

    Ptolemy

  • 180

    Theorizes earth is spherical and geocentric

  • 681

    Muslims accept the geocentric view

  • Period: 1473 to 1543

    Copernicus

  • Feb 19, 1473

    Birth of Nicolas

  • 1492

    Studies at Krakow university

  • 1510

    In a a canon at Cathedral

  • 1514

    Writes about Heliocentric theory

  • 1532

    Works on astronomical manuscripts

  • 1541

    Publishes “On the revelutions of celestial spheres"

  • May 24, 1543

    Death of Copernicus

  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo

  • Feb 15, 1564

    Birth of Galileo

  • Believes heliocentric theory, creates a math invention

  • Astronomical observation

  • Creates a better telescope and observes Jupiter

  • Venus circles the sun

  • publishes "Dialogue concerning the two cheif world systems"

  • Defends heliocentric theory

  • publishes "Discourses and mathematical demonstrations"

  • Galileo’s death

  • Period: to

    Newton

  • Newton’s Birth

  • Discover colors of white light, and gravity

  • Publishes Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

  • Newton’s Death

  • Period: to

    Mendeleev

  • Birth of Dimitri Mendeleev

  • Family factory burns and goes to St. Petersburg

  • Returns from Russia and writes a book “organic chemistry”

  • Period: to

    Marie Curie

  • Marie Curie Born

  • Publishes principles of Chemistry

  • Establishes periodic table

  • Marries Pierre Cuire

  • Discovers Polonium and Radium

  • Sees the silvery blue glow of radium

  • Gets doctorate in physics and Nobel peace prize for discovering radioactivity

  • Death of Dimitri Mendeleev

  • 2nd Nobel prize for chemistry becoming first person with two Nobel prizes

  • Death of Marie Curie