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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus
Nicolas Copernicus was borned in the city of Thorn, Kingdom of Poland. He said Earth is simply one of several planets which orbit the sun. Source:
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May 24, 1543
Scientific Revolution
Nicolas Copernicus died. Source:
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Period: Jan 1, 1550 to
Scientific Revolution
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Feb 15, 1564
Scientific Revolution
Galileo Galilei was borned in the city of Pisa, Italia. He became a Italian scientist. Source:
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May 16, 1571
Scientific Revolution
Johannes Kepler was borned on Württemberg, Germany. He was astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. Source and for more information:
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Enlightenment
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Scientific Revolution
Kepler publishes Astronomia Novia, which included: 1. The planets move around the sun not in circles, but ellipses. 2. Planets do not move uniformly. 3. The squares of the periods of the planets' orbits are proportional to the cubes of their distances from the sun. Source:
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Galileo discover that planets revolved around sun
after Galileo invent the telescope he discovered that the planets revolved around sun, opposing the established theoy that the planets revolved earth. http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/galileo.html -
Scientific Revolution
Galileo discoveries with the telescope are published in his book ''The Starry Messenger'', revealing his discoveries that the moon was not flat and smooth, but a sphere with mountains and craters. He found Venus had phases like the moon, proving it rotated around the sun. He also discovered Jupiter had revolving moons. Source:
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Encyclopedia was written
Denis Diderot wrote 28 volumes of its book "Encyclopedia". He lasted 27 years to wrout it. Source:
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The American Revolution
The conflict started because of growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-american-revolution-begins -
Adoption of the Declaration of Independence
The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence which formally proclaimed the 13 colonies independent. The war, however, continued as Britain was not willing to give up its North American colonies. Source: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/americanrevolution/timeline.html -
Surrender of Yorktown
Lord Cornwallis accepted the terms of surrender after successful land and sea campaign of joint American and French armies in Virginia in 1781, when the British found themselves trapped on the Yorktown peninsula. Source: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/americanrevolution/timeline.html -
Signature of the Treaty of Paris
The American War of Independence and with it, the American Revolution formally ended with the Treaty of Paris. The British Empire accepted defeat against its former colonies and recognized independence of the United States of America. Source: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/americanrevolution/timeline.html -
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French Revolution
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March of Versalles
7000 women marched from Paris to Versailles, protesting the high price and the shortage of bread to the king Luis XVI, after a violent match the protestants afford their demands and the next day they obligated the king and his family to go to Paris with them. Source:
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The National Constituent Assembly reorganize and regulate the Catholic Church in France, eliminating corruption and abuses from the Church, it limitted the church`s political influence, made the clergy paid emplyees of the government and require all members of the clergy to swear an oath of loyalty to the nation. Source:
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Dissulution of the National Assembly
France ws proclaimed a constitutional monarchy, while the National Assembly was desolved and replaced by a new political body named the Legislative Assembly Source:
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Napoleonic Empire
Napoleon begins his Egyptian Campaign. -
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Napoleonic Empire
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Rise of Napoleon
A military commander named Napoleon Bonaparte returned from a military expedition in Egypt and ousted the Directory. Napoleon established the Consulate and called himself as the First Consul. Source:
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Napoleonic Empire
Civil code also known as Napoleonic Code, is promulgated. -
Napoleonic Empire
Creation of kingdom of Holland with Louis Bonaparte as king. -
Napoleonic Empire
Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena, an island in the remote South Atlantic, in which escape would be virtually impossible. -
Napoleonic Empire
Napoleon dies in St. Helena.