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Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus was born
Christopher Columbus was the man that eventually founded America. He was trying to find a shorter way to China and stumbled upon an unknown land. -
Mar 9, 1454
Amerigo Vespucci was born
Amerigo Vespucci was born -
Sep 23, 1472
New Theory of the Planets
Georg Peurbach wanted to reconcile geometric descriptive models for predicting the motions of planets by using the center of celestial spheres. -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus was born
Nicolas Copernicus made a model that placed the sun, not earth, at the center of the universe -
Aug 22, 1494
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola takes action on practical magic, especially, astrology, as it is called into questions traditional belief of human free will -
Oct 5, 1532
Halley's Comet
Peter Apian and Fracastoro noticed that the tail of the comet that year, later named Halley's Comet, pointed away from the sun, a detail also recognized by Regiomontanus -
Feb 16, 1564
Galileo Galilei was born
Galileo Galilei born at Pisa, Italy -
Feb 18, 1564
Michelangelo Buonarroti dies
Michelangelo Buonarroti dies at Florence -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare was born
William Shakespeare born in England, 23 April -
Isaac Newton
Newton's health fails, he collapses and borders on death; shortly thereafter, Newton dies at Kensington between 1.00 and 2.00am. On 28 March his body lays in state in Westminster Abbey where he is buried on 4 April
