Topics Before the 19 Century

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius publishes "on the fabric of the human body" (first great modern work of science).

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  • Galileo Galilei demonstrates the properties of gravity on the tower of Pisa

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  • Galileo Galilei determines planets rotate around the Sun

  • 30 years war between catholic nations and protestants

  • Spanish succesion Charles II of Spain lest the nation to a grandson of Louis XIV

  • War breaks out (first shots are fired)

  • Washington crosses the Delaware

  • the newly elected Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria and Prussia

  • he National Convention, approved a new constitution that created France’s first bicameral legislature.