Scientific Revolution By nellyperez812 Mar 28, 1492 1492- Columbus discovers New World. Mar 28, 1543 Scientific Revolution Begins Mar 28, 1545 Council of Trent. Counter-reformation begins. Mar 28, 1600 Giordano Bruno burned at the stake for heresy Mar 28, 1618 Thirty Years War breaks out. Mar 28, 1630 Galileo Publishes Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World Mar 28, 1656 Otto von Guericke Invents the Air Pump Mar 28, 1680 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Publishes On the Motion of Animals Mar 28, 1692 The Salem Witch Trials Take Place in Massachusetts