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Period: Jan 1, 1440 to
Northern Renaissance
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Oct 31, 1451
Columbus is Born
Christopher Columbus is born. (Explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy.) -
Jan 1, 1455
Gutenberg printed bible
Gutenber printed the 42 line bible using movable type and a printing press -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus sailed for Asia and stumbled upon an unknown hemisphere
On the evening of August 3, 1492, Columbus departed from Castilian Palos de la Frontera with three ships. -
Sep 1, 1519
Proving that the Earth was round.
1519-22 Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe under a Spanish flag and proved that the Earth was round. -
Jan 1, 1534
Martin Luther published the first German-language Bible
It helped standardize the German language but inadvertently fueled the Protestant tendency toward fragmentation. -
Sep 1, 1537
John Calvin established a Protestant theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland
His followers desecrated churches, destroyed sacred images, imprisoned priests and outlawed Catholicism. Calvin became the most influential of all Protestant theologians. -
Oct 27, 1553
Calvin burned the Spanish Unitarian Michael Servetus
John Calvin burned the Spanish Unitarian Michael Servetus at the stake. The Catholics applauded. -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is baptised
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon -
Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity
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. -
Signs for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division were introduced
Signs for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division were introduced by Francois Vieta in 1603. This became standardized so all mathematicians used the same signs
