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Jan 1, 1419
Prince Henry (Portugal) - Explored uncharted African lands
Prince Henry's life was full of accomplishments and success, He started all of his fame with one goal, the goal to make Portugal the most powerful sea power. He started reaching his goal by founding a navigation school in 1419, where he taught young and unexperienced and old and wise how to use navigation tools, astronomy, compasses and how to steer and work a boat. -
Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus -Landed on the New World
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, and died on May 20, 1506. Columbus was married in 1479. His wife, Dona Felipa, died after his son was born.Christopher Columbus was one of the greatest sea men and explorers. He was granted three ships for his first voyage. They were the Pinta, the Santa Maria, and the Nina. On his first voyage he traveled west and found an island in the Bahamas. Columbus landed in the New World on October 12, 1492. -
Nov 22, 1497
Vasco De Gama- Sailed around the cape of good hope
Vasco da Gama was born in Sines, Portugal, in 1460, the year Prince Henry of Portugal, more famously known as Henry the Navigator, died. Da Gama’s father was a member of the royal household of Prince Dom Frenoyo, and young Vasco grew up in the town of Lisbon. Estevao da Gama and Isabel Sodr were good parents to Vasco. They made sure that at a young age he learned how to fish, swim and sail. Then at school, between 1484 and 1492 and most probably in the town of Evora, he studied astronomy and -
Sep 20, 1519
Ferndinand Magellan - Found the Western Passage and named it after himself.
Magellan was born in 1480. At a young age of 17 Magellan sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and he sailed for the king of Spain. He got five ships and left Seville on September 20, 1519. He sailed around the tip of South America. He found the westward passage and it was named the Strait of Magellan in his name. He also found the new ocean and named it the Pacific in honour of its calm and peaceful waters, and crossed it East to West. -
Jan 1, 1520
Martin Luther -Translation of Old and New Testament into German
Martin Luther, a monk from Eisleben, Saxony. He was wanted to be a lawyer by his parents but vowed to be a monk at the age of 18. When he was 37 he translated the old and new testaments of the Bible into German so he could share Christianity with more of the world. -
Aug 13, 1521
Hernando Cortes -Hernando Cortes conquered 5 Million Aztecs with less than 1000 soldiers
Hernando Cortes was born in 1485 in Medellin, Extremadura, Spain.Hernando Cortes was attended the University of Salamanca. Cortes heard the stories about the New World and joined the expedition to the West Indies led by Nicolas de Ovando with Diego Velazquez. -
Aug 1, 1536
John Calvin- Influential Writer
Born on July 10, 1509. John Calvin was raised and ordained in the Catholic Church. He was one of the most influential men of the Reformation movement. Calvin completed his first edition of The Institutes of the Christian Religion. The book laid out specifically the beliefs of the French Protestant movement. -
Apr 22, 1541
Saint Ignatius of Loyola- Founder of the society of Jesus
Ignatius was born in the Basque region of Spain, and the youngest of thirteen children. Ignatius was a Spanish officer and during the seige of Pampelunda a cannon ball tore through his left calf and broke his right shin. He layed up one night and saw the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. He was loathing for his past sins and turned for religion and joined the (Compania de Jesus) Society of Jesus -
Jan 1, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus - Claimed the sun was the center of the universe instead of the Earth
Nicolaus Copernicus was born Febuary 14 1473. He was a lawyer, tax collecter, a docter, millitary governor, judge, vicor-general of the canon law, and a Polish astronaught. He was the person who claimed that insted of the Earth being in the middle of the universe and everything revolve around us it was accually the sun instead. -
Jan 1, 1577
Tycho Brahe- Made the most accurate austronamical observation without the aid of a telescope
Tycho Brahe was born December 14, 1546, being the surviving member of a pair of twins. He was raised, however, by a wealthy, childless uncle. Brahe observed a bright comet that his measurements proved that it was farther then the distance between the Earth and the moon.He published those findings that same year -
Fracis Bacon- Wrote masterful Essayes
Sir Francis Bacon was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science.Early in his career he claimed “all knowledge as his province” and afterwards dedicated himself to a wholesale revaluation and re-structuring of traditional learning. To take the place of the established tradition he proposed an entirely new system based on empirical and inductive principles and the active development of new arts and inventions, a system who -
Johannes Kepler-Created the three Kepler Laws
Johannes Kepler was born December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Wurttemberg. Johannes was an important scientist in austronomy at the age. He was the founder of "celestial mechanics",having been the first to explain planetary motion. Thats how he created the three laws. -
Galileo Galilei- Discovered the four moons on Jupiter
He was born in 1564, the oldest of seven children. He enterted the university of Pisa in 1581. In 1586 he withdrew from the University of Pisa and moved back with his family. He became the chair of mathamatics at the University of Padua in 1592. -
Rene Descartes- First philosopher to describe the physical universe in terms of matter and motion
René Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in La Haye, France. His father, Joachim, served in the Parliament of Brittany, France. After leaving college at age eighteen, Descartes earned a law degree in Poitiers, France. From 1618 to 1628 he traveled throughout Europe as a soldier.He began to devote his efforts to proving that he had discovered such a method. To focus better on his work, Descartes moved to Holland, where he lived peacefully for the next twenty years. -
Robert Boyle- Founded of the Modern Scientific Method
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was an Irish-born physicist, inventor and philosopher and arguably the first modern chemist. Boyle was also one of the first prominent scientists to publish his work with elaborate details regarding procedure, apparatus and observations. -
Isaac Newton- Founded the Law of Gravity
He was born January 4th, 1643. Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He was also a natural philosopher and alchemist. He was a student of The King’s School, Grantham. He dropped out from school and was later admitted to the Trinity College, Cambridge
