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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.
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one of Henry's navigators, probably Gonçalo Velho, discovered the Azores
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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.
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On 30 May 1498, Columbus left with six ships from Sanlúcar, Spain, for his third trip to the New World
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He sailed from Spain to the New World with Alonzo de Ojeda on an expedition to Urabi.
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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.
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Luther had published his German translation of the New Testament in 1522.
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Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.
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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.
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In 1541 Cortés returned to Spain, where he died peacefully but embittered, six years later.
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Just before his death in 1543, Nicolaus publised a book called, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).
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Ignatius was chosen as the first Superior General of his religious order, invested with the title of Father General by the Jesuits
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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.
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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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, with Observations on a Diamond that Shines in the Dark
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He Came Up With The First Reflective Microscope
