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Jan 1, 1299
Marco Polo
He was released in 1299, became a wealthy merchant, married and had 3 children. He was originally suposed to be in jail for life, but he got out early. -
Jan 1, 1427
Prince Henry
one of Henry's navigators, probably Gonçalo Velho, discovered the Azores -
Jan 1, 1480
Vasco da Gama
Around 1480, Vasco da Gama followed his father (rather than the Sodrés) and joined the Order of Santiago.[7] The master of Santiago was Prince John, who would ascend to the throne in 1481 as King John II of Portugal. -
May 30, 1498
Christopher Columbus
On 30 May 1498, Columbus left with six ships from Sanlúcar, Spain, for his third trip to the New World -
Nov 10, 1509
Franciso Pizzarro
He sailed from Spain to the New World with Alonzo de Ojeda on an expedition to Urabi. -
Aug 10, 1519
Ferinand Magellan
On 10 August 1519, the five ships under Magellan's command – Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria and Santiago – left Seville and descended the Guadalquivir River to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, at the mouth of the river. -
Jan 1, 1522
Martin Luther
Luther had published his German translation of the New Testament in 1522. -
Jan 1, 1536
John Calvin
Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536. -
Jul 15, 1536
Jacques Cartier
Cartier and his men arrived in Saint-Malo on July 15, 1536, concluding the second, 14 month voyage, which was to be Cartier's most profitable. -
Jan 1, 1541
Hernan Cortes
In 1541 Cortés returned to Spain, where he died peacefully but embittered, six years later. -
Jan 1, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Just before his death in 1543, Nicolaus publised a book called, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). -
Jan 1, 1556
Ignatius Of Loyola
Ignatius was chosen as the first Superior General of his religious order, invested with the title of Father General by the Jesuits -
Dec 29, 1566
Tycho Brahe
While studying at University of Rostock in Germany, Tycho lost part of his nose in a sword duel against fellow Danish nobleman (and his third cousin), Manderup Parsberg. -
Jan 1, 1581
Galileo Galilei
The "Father of Modern Physics".
In 1581, when he was studying medicine, he noticed a swinging chandelier, which air currents shifted about to swing in larger and smaller arcs. -
Johannes Kepler
Two days after Tycho's unexpected death on October 24, 1601, Kepler was appointed his successor as imperial mathematician with the responsibility to complete his unfinished work. -
Francis Bacon
Francis bacon was Knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618 and the Viscount St Alban in 1621. He died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat. -
René Descartes
In 1643, Cartesian philosophy was condemned at the University of Utrecht, and Descartes began his long correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, devoted mainly to moral and psychological subjects. -
Robert Boyle
Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, with Observations on a Diamond that Shines in the Dark -
Isaac Newton
He Came Up With The First Reflective Microscope
