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Transition to the modern world

  • Jun 23, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    The Magna Carta was signed in 1215 by King John
  • Dec 24, 1220

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    Roger Bacon favored a system of experiments rather than judge it on faith
  • Sep 1, 1347

    Black Death

    Black Death
    The black death was the bubonic plague that killed most of Europes population in 1347-1353
  • Dec 24, 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Johannes Gutenberg
    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
  • Aug 15, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in the year of 1492
  • Sep 23, 1503

    Copernicus

    Copernicus invented the heliocentric theory which is the fact that the Sun is the center of the universe
  • Jul 17, 1517

    Luthers 95 theses

    Luthers 95 theses
    Luthers 95 Theses were a total of 95 theses that were about confronting the Catholic church
  • Shakespeare

    Shakespeare
    Shakespeare was a famous play writer who wrote A Midsummers Nights Dream and Romeo and Juliet
  • Kepler

    Kepler
    Kepler was a scientist that came up with the law of planetary motion
  • Galileo

    Galileo
    Galileo was a famous man who realized that there were moons that revolved around Jupiter using his modified telescope to prove that the Earth isn't the center of the universe
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes
    Rene Descartes said that all assumptions had to be proven with trial and error
  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton
    Sir Isaac Newton came up with the theory about gravity that things fall at the same rate if dropped at the same time