Post-holiday break timeline "check-in" 11/27/23

Fall of Constantinople

May 29, 1453

https://hum54-15.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/exhibits/show/theodosian_walls_gardens/fall#:~:text=The%20infamous%20date%20of%20the,technology%20of%20the%20Walls%20obsolete.

Start of the Mughal Empire

Jan 20, 1526

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-1750/xcabef9ed3fc7da7b:unit-1-the-world-in-1750/xcabef9ed3fc7da7b:1-3-expanding-to-a-global-scale/a/read-mughal-empire-beta

Peak of the Ottoman Empire

Jun 7, 1540

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/ottoman-empire

Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published

May 28, 1543

https://www.space.com/heliocentrism

Galileo's first telescope built

Nov 12, 1609

https://www.loc.gov/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/articles-and-essays/modeling-the-cosmos/galileo-and-the-telescope#:~:text=After%20hearing%20about%20the%20%22Danish,earned%20him%20a%20lifetime%20lectureship.

Newton's laws of gravity published in the Principia

Mar 18, 1687

https://scholar.harvard.edu/kleelerner/publications/newtons-law-universal-gravitation#:~:text=In%201687%20English%20physicist%20Sir,Mathematical%20Principles%20of%20Natural%20Philosophy).