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Transition to the modern world

  • Magna Carta
    Jun 23, 1215

    Magna Carta

    The Magna Carta was signed in 1215 by King John
  • Roger Bacon
    Dec 24, 1220

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon favored a system of experiments rather than judge it on faith
  • Black Death
    Sep 1, 1347

    Black Death

    The black death was the bubonic plague that killed most of Europes population in 1347-1353
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Dec 24, 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
  • Christopher Columbus
    Aug 15, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in the year of 1492
  • Sep 23, 1503

    Copernicus

    Copernicus invented the heliocentric theory which is the fact that the Sun is the center of the universe
  • Luthers 95 theses
    Jul 17, 1517

    Luthers 95 theses

    Luthers 95 Theses were a total of 95 theses that were about confronting the Catholic church
  • Shakespeare

    Shakespeare

    Shakespeare was a famous play writer who wrote A Midsummers Nights Dream and Romeo and Juliet
  • Kepler

    Kepler

    Kepler was a scientist that came up with the law of planetary motion
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    Galileo was a famous man who realized that there were moons that revolved around Jupiter using his modified telescope to prove that the Earth isn't the center of the universe
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes said that all assumptions had to be proven with trial and error
  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton came up with the theory about gravity that things fall at the same rate if dropped at the same time