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Jun 1, 1254
Marco Polo 1254
Vinice Nationality italian
Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle over the Silk Road which was an overland route to China. He worked for Kublai Khan, the Mongol Emperor, for seventeen years. He sailed home instead of going overland. He brought back ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain and silk. He told about the Chinese use of coal, money and compasses. He met Rustichello, a famous writer, who wrote about Marco Polo's travels in a book called THE BOOK OF TRAVELS. -
Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry the Navigator is born
Nationality: Portugese
found a sea route to Africa which made them have better goods,food,and silk -
Oct 31, 1451
Christopher columbus is born
Nationality: Genoese
Christopher Columbus is credited for the discovey of America when he tried to prove the Earth was round by sailing to Asia -
Nov 13, 1460
Henry The Navigator dies
age: 66, COD: no one could say that he died of old age, but his death was probably hastened by stress and worry, as he was deploying debt at the time of his death. But he was known as being murdered by his son -
Jan 1, 1469
Vasco Da Gama is born
Nationality: Portugese
discovered an ocean route from china to Australia -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nationality Polish
Astronomer known for figuring out that the sun is the center of our solar system -
Jan 1, 1476
Francisco Pizarro is born
was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire, and founder of Lima. -
Jan 1, 1480
Ferdinand Magellan is born
Born in: Sabrosa, Portugal
Nationality: Poteguese
First person to circumnavigate the globe -
Nov 10, 1483
Martin Luther
Nationality : German -
Jan 1, 1485
Hernan Cortez is born
Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland
Nationality: Castilian -
Jan 1, 1491
Ignatius of Loyola is born
Nationality spanish
Founded the society of Jesus -
Dec 31, 1491
Jacques Cartier is born
was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
nationality: French -
May 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus dies
C.O.D: old age
note: on his death still believed he reached Asia -
Jul 10, 1509
John Calvin is born
Nationality : French -
Period: Jan 1, 1519 to Jan 1, 1522
Martin Luther translates the bible into German
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Apr 27, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan dies
Dies: Cebu, Philippines
Cause of Death: Killed by natives in the Philippines -
Dec 24, 1524
Vasco de Gama dies
C.O.D: Malaria -
Jan 1, 1536
Institutes of the Christian Religion is published
published by John Calvin -
Apr 13, 1541
Founding of the Society of Jesus
Ignatius was the founder of the Society of Jesus -
Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius Publishes On the Fabric of the Human Body
This is considered to be the first great modern work of science and the foundation of modern biology. In it, Vesalius makes unprecedented observations about the structure of the human body. -
Jan 1, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus Publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Copernicus' masterwork; he sets out the heliocentric theory (Theory that the sun was the center of the universe). -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
Nationality dannish -
Dec 2, 1547
Cortez dies
C.O.D: Pleurisy -
Sep 1, 1557
Jacques Cartier dies
C.O.D: epidemic -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon is born
Nationality english
father of the the scientific method -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileio Galilei
Nationality Italian
invented of the astronomical telescope -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
nationality German -
Jan 1, 1572
First supernova is observed by the naked eye
Brahe's study of a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia and the discoveries of a variation in the inclination of the lunar orbit and of the fourth inequality of the moon's motion. -
Rene Descartes is born
Nationality french
said "I think, therefore I am" -
Kepler publsihes his first 2 laws of planetary motion
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Kepler publishes the third law of planetary motion
These three laws became the foundation for modern day astronomy -
Robert Boyle is born
Nationality: Irish -
Robert Boyle dies
C.O.D: paralysis
