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Marco Polo lived from 1254 through 1324. Some years before St. Louis led his last Crusade there was born in Venice a boy named Marco Polo.
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Prince Henry was born in 1394. he was the third son of King João of Portugal. His mother the Queen was Philippa of Lancaster the daughter of John of Gaunt.
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Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 and was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 hoping to find a route to India in order to trade for spices. He made a total of four trips to the Caribbean and South America during the years 1492-1504.
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Vasco da Gama was born 1460 and was a Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East.
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Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473 and died 1543. He was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.
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Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo Spain in 1478. Nobody knows the exact date. His parents never married and he was brought up by his mothers parents. His father was the Royal Infantry Captain of Spain so he was an important guy.
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Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480 in northern Portugal. His parents died when he was only 10 years old. At the age of 12 he was appointed as the queens messenger in the royal court. Young boys were appointed as messenger as a source of education. At the court he learned about many famous explorers and the most important information about navigating ships.
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Martin Luther was born.
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Hernan Cortes was born in 1485 and was a Spanish explorer who is famous mainly for his march across Mexico and his conquering of the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
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Jacques Cartier was bornDecember 31 1491 and was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France.
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At the age of seventeen in 1501 he entered the University of Erfurt. The young student received his Bachelor's degree after just one year in 1502. Three years later in 1505 he received a Master's degree.
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All that changed during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1505. A lightening bolt struck near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified he cried out, "Help, St. Anne! I'll become a monk!" Spared of his life but regretting his words Luther kept his bargain dropped out of law school and entered the monastery there.
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John Calvin was born July 10 1509 – May 27 1564
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Born July 10 1509 in Noyon France Jean Calvin was raised in a staunch Roman Catholic family. The local bishop employed Calvins father as an administrator in the town's cathedral.
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On Halloween of 1517 Luther changed the course of human history when he nailed his 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg accusing the Roman Catholic church of heresy upon heresy.
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Luthers Protestant views were condemned as heretical by Pope Leo X in the bull Exsurge Domine in 1520.
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Luther who would be exiled in the months following the Diet of Worms Council in 1521 that was designed to martyr him would translate the New Testament into German for the first time from the 1516 Greek Latin New Testament of Erasmus and publish it in September of 1522.
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On May 25, the Emperor issued his Edict of Worms declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
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Born in 1491 at the castle of Loyola above Azpeitia in Guipuscoa died at Rome July 31 1556.
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Francis Bacon was the son of Nicolas Bacon the Lord Keeper of the Seal of Elisabeth I. He entered Trinity College Cambridge at age 12. Bacon later described his tutors as Men of sharp wits shut up in their cells of a few authors chiefly Aristotle their Dictator. This is likely the beginning of Bacons rejection of Aristotelianism and Scholasticism and the new Renaissance Humanism.
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Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa Italy on February 15 1564. He was the oldest of seven children. His father was a musician and wool trader who wanted his son to study medicine as there was more money in medicine. At eleven years old Galileo was sent off to study in a Jesuit monastery.
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Johannes Kepler was born 1571 and died 1630
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Johannes Kepler was one of the most important scientist in the field of astronomy.
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Rene Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596 in the town of La Haye in the south of France. his dad was Joachim Descartes.
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Tycho Brahe was born 1546 and died 1601
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robert boyle was born
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In 1642 the year Galileo died Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire England on Christmas Day.
