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Dies in Saint Malo France were he was born
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Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy in 1254.
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On this day Marco polo is captured and sent to prison. While in prison he wrote the book "A Million Lies".
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Marco Polo dies.
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He was born in Oporto, Portugal.
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He created a school where the children learned science, to make maps, and navigate.
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Born in Genoa, Republic of Genoa.
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He died at the age of 66 in Sagres, Algarve, Portugal.
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He was born in Sines, Kingdom of Portugal.
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Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain.
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He was born in Toruń (Thorn), Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland
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Ferdinand Magellan is born to Don Roy de Magalhas and Dona Alda. His name in Hispanol is Fernao de Magalhaes. He was born near the city of Porto. He was well educated in his early years and was sent to the palace as a servant in his later years.
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Born as Martin Luder on Nov 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany. Baptised after he was born.
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He moved to Spain, settling at Palos in Andalusia.
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Cortes is born in Medellin Spain
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Jacques Cartier was born
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He was born in Spain as Inigo Lopez. Fun Fact: He was born the year before Christopher Columbus set sail.
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He became a naval officer, commanded ships and was ordered by King John II to capture French ships in Portugal for taking Portuguese property in France
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His first voyage began on August 3, 1492. They first landed on an island Columbus named San Salvador. Columbus and his ships visited several other islands including Cuba and Hispaniola. He was about 41 years old when he left.
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He set sail with 17 ships and over 1,000 men in October, 1493. This was his second voyage.
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He set sail from Lisbon, Portugal on orders of King Manuel to open up trading routes and bring back spices
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He left Spain with six ships. They landed in South America while on this voyage. He was about 47 years old when he left on his third voyage.
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This was his fourth and final voyage. They left Spain with four ships.
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Became a Monk after praying to St. Anne during a close encounter with lighting.
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He joined the army at the age of 18.
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He died at the age of (probably) 54 in Valladolid, Crown of Castile.
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Born as Jean Calvin. Born in the town of Noyon in the Picardy region of France.
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Pizarro joined the expedition of Nunez de Balboa across the Isthmus of Panama to discover the Pacific Ocean.
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He wrote a six page hand-written paper describing his ideas about the sun being the center of the universe, and made it available to only his friends.
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He changed the cousre by nailing the Ninety-Five Theses to a church door at Wittenburg (Door of All Saints' Church) thus beginning protestent reformation.
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Cortes lands on the Mexican coast and gains leadership over the Totonics and Tlaxcalans tribes.
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Ferdinand Magellan convinces the King of Spain that he should let Ferdinand sail. Ferdinand says he will go to the Mollucas around the Western side and find a way through the new world, and reach the Mollucas.
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The Phillipinnos and Magellan have a row. The Row soon turns into a fight. Ferdinand and hisarmy use guns, while he Phillipinnnos use swords, bows and arrows and spears. Ferdinand asks his army to retreat, and board the ships. But in the panic, is left behind and stabbed.
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Invisioned the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus while at a shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat.
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Luther had published the German translation of the New Testament in 1522, and he and his assistants completed the translation of the Old Testament in 1534 when the whole Bible was published. He continued to work on refining the translation until the end of his life.
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Jacques goes with Giovanni da Verrazano to North America
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He died in Kochim, Portuguese India.
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In Paris, Calvin first came into contact with the new humanistic learning while preparing for a career as a priest. He met many of the leading humanists of his day. He earned his masters degree at the age of 18.
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King Francis 1 of France hired him to look or explore the possible passages to Asia
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In July 1536, Calvin went to Geneva which became the place of his work. He wanted to go to Strasbourg, but the spread of the Habsburg-Valois Wars made him go to Geneva where a Protestant called Guillaume Farel persuaded him to stay.
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Saint Ignatius has his frist mass and cries.
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He founded the Society of Jesus (later known as the Jesuits).
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In 1541, added by the city council, Calvin drew up the Ecclesiastical Ordinances. He didn't want the idea of the Medieval Church as contrary to the New Testament. There were be no bishops. All ministers were equal. They had to preach, administer the sacraments and look after the spiritual welfare of the people.
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Pizarro was assassinated by followers of Pedro de Almagro (Cortes' captain) who wanted to seize Lima for its wealth. Francisco Pizarro died at Lima, Peru.
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Returned to Geneva after the Libertines had fallen from power in 1540. It took 14 years before he could fully impose his version of liturgy, doctrine, organisation of the church and moral behavior.
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He wrote hymns, the most famous being the Old Hundredth. Published the Catéchisme de l'Eglise de Genève (Catechism of the Church of Geneva), which was inspired by Bucer's Kurze Schrifftliche Erklärung of 1534.
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His major theory was published in the book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in the year of his death.
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He was 70 years old when he died in Frombork (Frauenburg).
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Died. He was 62 years old.
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He was born as Tyge Ottesen Brahe in Knutstorp Castle, Scania.
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While living in Spain Cortes passes away.
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While he lived in Rome in 1556, he died from a sickness known as "The Roman Fever," which could have have been Malaria, since Malaria was going around in Italy. He was sixty-five years old.
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Because of an eclipse, he changed what he was studying from law to astrology.
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He was born in Strand, London, England.
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He is born in Duchy of Florence, Italy.
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He died on 27 May, 1564. He was 54 years old.
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He constructed a small observatory.
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Born in Germany.
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He proved that a very bright star was a supernova.
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He discovered a new star.
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He saw a lunar eclipse. After this though, he was weakened by smallpox.
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From 1581 to 1585, he studied medicine at the University of Pisa, though more interested in science and mathematics.
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Sir Francis Bacon was a leader in science he didnt really invent things he aimed toward what was already invented he invented the modern scientific enterprise. He is Seen as one of the most influencial people in the science feild.
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He was born in La Haye en Touraine, Touraine, France
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Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet.
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Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brathe meet.
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He died at the age of 54.
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Two days after Tycho's death on October 24, 1601, Kepler was appointed his successor as a mathematician with the responsibility to complete Tycho's unfinished work.
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He made the Kepler's Laws: (1) The Elliptical law 2) The Equal-areas law, and (3) The Harmonic law. The last law came ten years later. (1619)
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He used a telescope to look at the moon, and all the moons of Jupiter. (November 1609 - January 1610)
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This is the supernova he found and studied.
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While he was stationed in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany, he experienced a series of three powerful dreams or visions that he later claimed profoundly influenced his life
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He returned to France, and it was during a stay in Paris that he composed his first essay on method: Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii (Rules for the Direction of the Mind).
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He died at the age of 65 in Highgate, London, England.
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He was born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland.
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He died at the age of 58.
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He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It was when he was under house arrest that he wrote his finest work, 'Two New Sciences.' He summarized the work he had done forty years earlier, on kinematics and strength of materials
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He published part of this work in three essays: Les Météores (The Meteors), La Dioptrique (Dioptrics) and La Géométrie (Geometry), preceded by an introduction, his famous Discours de la Métode (Discourse on the Method).
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He died at the age of 77 in Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy.
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He was influenced by Galileo's death and began to study Galileo's work.
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He was born in Lincolnshire, England.
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He died at the age of 53 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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He worked with his assistant Robert Hooke on experiements with an air pump. He also proved that flames need air to survive and so does life.
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Boyle's first law states that pressure and volume are inversely proportional.
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The Pope placed his works on the Index of Prohibited Books.
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He started studying gravity when he was watching his cats under a tree and making notes about light when an apple fell on his head..
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He wrote a book called The Origin of Forms and Qualities.
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While he studied light, he found out that light is made of many colors, while others thought that the prism they used made the color.
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He declined this job offer because he could not swear an oath because of his religious views.
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The Principia was published with encouragement and financial help from Edmond Halley.
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He died at the age of 64 in London, England.
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He died at the age of 84 in Kensington, Middlesex, England.
