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Dutch opticians
invent the telescope.
William Gilbert completes De Magnete, Magneticisique Corporibus pioneering
concepts of electricity. |
1600 |
Giordano Bruno
burned at the stake for supporting Copernican astronomy. |
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| Philip III of
Spain and Holland's Staats-Generaland offer prizes for a method of ascertaining longitude.
April 15 Edict of Nantes enhances rights of Protestants in France. |
1598 |
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| Galileo invents
the sector. |
1597 |
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| Trinity College
founded in Dublin. |
1591 |
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| Dutch spectacle
makers Hans and Zacharias Janssen invent compound microscope. |
1590 |
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| Boris Gudunov
asserts Moscow's independence from Constantinople. |
1589 |
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1587 |
Hideyoshi bans
Christianity from Japan when he is refused sex for religious reasons. |
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| Dutch
mathematician Simon Stevin introduces decimals and fractions in La disme. |
1585 |
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| Reginald Scot
attacks superstition in The Discoverie of Witchcraft. |
1584 |
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| Andre Cesalpino
classifies plants in De Plantis. |
1583 |
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| October 5 through
14 omitted from the year by Gregory XIII to align Julian calendar with
the solar year. |
1582 |
Protestant
countries refuse to adopt the Gregorian calendar. |
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| Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne publishes Essais. |
1580 |
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| Vindiciae
contra Tyrannos declares that rulers must be accountable to the people. Humanist George Buchanan declares in De Juri Begni apud Scotos that kings must
serve their subjects. |
1579 |
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| Poland declares
all religions under its Constitution. |
1573 |
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| Tyco Brahe
discovers a new star, disproving the idea that the heavens never change. |
1572 |
The Saint
Bartholomew Massacre. Rioting Catholics kill 50,000 Hugenots in Paris. Pope Gregory XIII
calls for celebratory bonfires. |
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1570 |
Ivan the Terrible
excutes almost all of his advisors in public. |
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| Royal College of
Physicians permitted to perform human dissections. |
1565 |
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| Galileo Galelei
born.
April 23 William Shakespeare born. |
1564 |
To commute his
death sentence from the Inquisition for dissecting human bodies, Andreas Vesalius makes a
pilgrimage to the Holy Land. |
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| Realdo Colombo
describes position of human embryo. Ice cream accidentally discovered in Italy. |
1559 |
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| England's
Elizabethan age begins with the ascension of Elizabeth I. |
1558 |
John Knox
publishes First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
deploring the authority of women. |
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| Aztec dictionary
published. |
1555 |
Pope Paul IV
orders wall built to create the first Jewish ghetto. |
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1553 |
Michael Servetus executed for criticism of doctrine of the trinity and
opposition to infant baptism. |
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1552 |
British burn boks
on geography and astronomy thought to be infected with magic. |
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| Konrad von Gesner
publishes Historia Animalium, the first book of modern zoology. |
1551 |
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| Japanese ukiyoe
painting begins. Billiards is introduced in Italy. |
1550 |
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| Court jesters
appear in Europe. |
1549 |
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| Henricus
Glareanus publishes Dodekachordon. English Parliament repeals the Statute of the Six Articles which defined heresy. |
1547 |
Nostradamus
begins making predictions. |
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| First Welsh book
printed, Yny Lhyvyr Mwnn. Girolamo Fracastoro publishes De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis et eorum Curatione
describing typhus as an infection passed from one person to person as seminaria
contagionum. |
1546 |
August 3
Etienne Dolet hanged and burnt at the stake as a heretic and blasphemer for printing the
works of humanists, including Erasmus. |
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| John Heywood
publishes The Proverbs of John Heywood. |
1546 |
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| Nikolaus
Copernicus describes the solar system with the sun at the center in De Revolutionibus
Orbitum Coelestium. Andreas Vesalius publishes De Corporis Humani Fabrica, the first accurate book of
human anatomy.
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1543 |
Spanish Catholics
begin burning Protestants at the stake. Nikolaus Copernicus refuses to publish De Revolutionibus Orbitum Coelestium.
Martin Luther publishes
On the Jews and their Lives.
Pope Paul III issues the Index of forbidden books. |
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1542 |
Pope Paul II
establishes the Universal Inquisition in Rome.
Dominican cardinals try alleged heretics with no legal counsel.
Henry VIII of England becomes king of Ireland. |
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| English begin
keeping records of births, deaths, and marriages. |
1538 |
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| Niccolo Tartaglia
completes Nova Scientia describing trajectories of projectiles and heavenly
bodies. Pope Paul III prohibits enslavement of Indians and excommunicates slave traders. |
1537 |
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| Parliament
declares papal authority void in England. |
1536 |
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1535 |
Sir Thomas More
beheaded for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. |
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| German
mathematician Gemma Frisius introduces new method of surveying. |
1533 |
Francisco Pizzaro
orders the execution by strangulation of the last Inca. |
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1531 |
Comet, eventually
named "Haley's" creates wave of superstition. |
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| Gemma Frisius
proposes the prime meridian. |
1530 |
Catholic Church
orders the abolition of all innovations to its doctrine at the Diet of Augsburg. |
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1529 |
Japanese Tendai
monks massacre Nicheren Buddhists in Kyoto. |
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| Hutterites led by Jacob Hutter establish
a community of love. |
1528 |
Theophrastus von
Hohenheim expelled from Basel for his medical innovations.
Hutterites driven from their community of love. |
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| Theophrastus von Hohenheim rejects four humors and
introduces chemotherapy. |
1527 |
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| June 6
King Gustav I of Sweden crowned. Mennonite views challenge Catholic hold on spiritual beliefs.
January 19 Huldreich Zwingli publishes his 67 Articles,
attacking transubstantiation and papal authority. |
1523 |
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| Zwingli condemns
priesthood celibacy. |
1522 |
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| Martin Luther publicly burns papal bull of excommunication. |
1520 |
Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. |
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1519 |
May 2 Leonardo da Vinci dies. |
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1518 |
Lorens de Gominot receives license to import African slaves. |
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| Bartolome de Las Casas, first priest ordained in the New World, protests the enslavement of Indians. Martin Luther nails 95 theses of the door Wittenburg Cathedral.
Fifth Lateran Council allows usury. |
1517 |
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Thomas More publishes Utopia.
Henry VIII of England issues decrees to protect peasants from land enclosure. |
1515 |
Lateran Council
forbids printing books without Church approval. |
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| Pope Leo X speaks
out against slavery in a papal bull. |
1514 |
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| Niccolo
Machiavelli publishes Il Principe. Vasco Núñez de Balboa sights the Pacific Ocean.
Cathedral at Chartes completed |
1513 |
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| Michaelangelo completes the Sistine Chapel ceiling. |
1512 |
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| Friar Antonio de
Montesinos preaches in Hispaniola against the enslavement of Indians. |
1511 |
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| Leonardo da Vinci
designs the horizontal water wheel and completes his Anatomy. |
1510 |
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| Erasmus publishes
Moriae Encomium.
Alexander Barclay publishes The Ship of Fools. |
1509 |
Pope Julius II
excommunicates the city of Venice. |
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1507 |
To raise money
for rebuilding St. Peter's, Pope Julius II proclaims an indulgence. |
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Korean rebels overthrow Yonsangun.
Leonardo da Vinci completes Mona Lisa |
1506 |
Approximately 3,000 converted Jews are slaughtered in a Lisbon riot. |
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| Michaelangelo completes David |
1504 |
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| Leonardo da Vinci
paints Mona Lisa. |
1503 |
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1502 |
Persian shah
executes Sunnis who refuse to accept Shiite version of Islam. |
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| Henry VII of
England refuses to lead a crusade against the Ottoman Turks. |
1501 |
Spanish settlers
import the first African slaves to Hispaniola.
Gaspar de Corte-Real attempts to bring first American Indians to Portugal as slaves.
Church orders books against papal authority burned. |
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