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He was born in Weil der Stadt, Wurttemberg into a poor family.
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Kepler witnessed The Great Comet at age 6 and it sparked his love for astronomy and contributed to many of his theories
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Kepler got a scholarship to University of Tübingen. Kepler obtained his B.A. degree in 1588 and his M.A. degree in 1591
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Kepler moves to Graz to become a mathematics teacher at The Protestant Seminary
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Kepler collaborated with Copernicus to write a book about looking for relations between planetary bodies
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Kepler marries Barbra Müller
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Kepler was appointed as the Imperial mathematician and advisor to Emperor Rudolf II
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He published his second book about the optical parts of astronomy
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He witnessed a supernova that occurred in the Milky Way in the constellation Ophiuchus
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The first two laws of planetary motion were based off of analyzations of Tycho Brahe. They are "The Law of Ellipses" and "The Law of Equal Areas"
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Kepler published 'Astronima Nova' which was one of his most famous books he wrote about his ten-year long investigation of the motion of Mars
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Kepler married Suzanne Reuttinger after the death of his first wife
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Kepler published a 3 volume book about his laws of motion
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The third law states that the squares are the periods of any two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distance from the sun. This is called "The Law of Harmonies"
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Kepler published a book that consisted of star catalogues and planetary tables that he had been recording for a period of time
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Kepler passes away in Regensburg, Germany at age 58
