Age of Discovery Timeline

  • Marco Polo
    Jan 1, 1271

    Marco Polo

    He want on a journey with his father on the silk road. Marco Polo trded and collected jewels, silk, and ivory and worte a book about his travels
  • nicolaus coperniccus
    Jan 1, 1503

    nicolaus coperniccus

    fist astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmolgy that displaced the earth from the center of the universe
  • Martin Luther
    Jan 1, 1534

    Martin Luther

    Martin luther completed the translation of the old testament in Germany in 1534. He impacted the german community by translating the bible to german.
  • Jacques Cartier
    Jan 1, 1534

    Jacques Cartier

    He is a french explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
  • John Calvin
    Jan 1, 1536

    John Calvin

    Calvins first addition of his major work "The institutes of the christian religion" was published in Basel, Switzerland.
  • ignatius of loyola
    Sep 27, 1540

    ignatius of loyola

    found the jesuits(the society of jesus)
  • Tycho Brahe
    Jan 1, 1575

    Tycho Brahe

    King Frederick II tried to keep brahe in denmark. He offered him his own island and some financial support to study astronomy there. He saw comets and a supernova before that and studied them .
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    He was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution