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Christopher Columbus is born. (Explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy.)
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Gutenber printed the 42 line bible using movable type and a printing press
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On the evening of August 3, 1492, Columbus departed from Castilian Palos de la Frontera with three ships.
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1519-22 Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe under a Spanish flag and proved that the Earth was round.
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It helped standardize the German language but inadvertently fueled the Protestant tendency toward fragmentation.
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His followers desecrated churches, destroyed sacred images, imprisoned priests and outlawed Catholicism. Calvin became the most influential of all Protestant theologians.
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John Calvin burned the Spanish Unitarian Michael Servetus at the stake. The Catholics applauded.
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Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Galileo demonstrates, from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, that a one- pound weight and a one hundred-pound weight, dropped at the same moment, hit the ground at the same moment, refuting the contention of the Aristotelian system that the rate of fall of an object is dependent upon its weight.
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Signs for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division were introduced by Francois Vieta in 1603. This became standardized so all mathematicians used the same signs
