The city is renamed New York. For additional information on any of the highlighted text , click on the search engine results for either [ General Audiences ] or [ For Kids ] to link to relevant resources available on the Web. These hyperlinks will open in a new browser window. To return to the timeline, close the new browser window. English Civil War. Click here for more information: [ General Audiences ] [ For Kids ]. Isaac Newton 's experiments with gravity. Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha , the first modern novel.
Pocahontas Jamestown, Virginia, established-first permanent English colony on American mainland. Johannes Kepler publishes his Laws of Planetary Motion which explained the movement of planets around the sun. Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope. King James Version of the Bible published in England.
William Shakespeare William Shakespeare dies. Hightower 6. Galileo made his first important discovery one day while sitting in church. He noticed how the lamps on the ceiling swung back and forth, becoming shorter, but always taking the same amount of time. He determined that the time of the swing was constant, while the swing grew shorter. Galileo used this discovery to design a device called a "pulsilogia" , which was used to measure a person's heartbeat.
This discovery is significant because it made Galileo begin to question other ideas. Hightower 9. After recieving much resistance to his ideas that went against Aristotle's, Galileo decided to disprove Aristotle's theory that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones. He did this by dropping two balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa; one bigger and one smaller. Although one ball was heavier and the other was lighter, both objects hit the ground at the same time. This event is significant because it showed how important it is to prove theories by experimentation.
Hightower Shakespeare wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet" between and The early manuscript was printed in and it was first perfromed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men in a theatre outside of London. This event is significant because Romeo and Juliet is probably the most famous tragedy ever written. It has been adapted to modern times and is still performed today. British Library. Jamestown was established by the Virginia Company of London when they sent three ships to the New World, however, the land was swampy and mosquito infested and the setters were not well prepared for such living conditions.
They didn't expect life in the New World to be so hard and focused on searching for gold instead of planting crops. This event is significant because Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in North America. Galileo learned of the invention of the telescope in Holland and was able to create one of his own.
His telescope proved to be much more advanced. While the others that were being produced throughout Europe could magnify objects up to 3 times, Galileo created one which could magnify objects twenty times. This event is significant because with his telescope he made many important discoveries. Nardo With Galileo's telescpe, he was able to make many ground breaking discoveries, including the moon's craters and mountains, the phases of venus, the existence of sunspots and the moons of Jupiter.
The bottle creates a wonderful insight to childhood during the 15 th - 16 th Century, and allows us an idea of the types of material culture that Shakespeare may have interacted with as an infant. The full title is:. A summarie of Englyshe chronicles conteynyng the true accompt of yeres, wherein euery kyng of this realme of England began theyr reigne, howe long they reigned: and what notable thynges hath bene doone durynge theyr reygnes.
Wyth also the names and yeares of all the baylyffes, custos, maiors, and sheriffes of the citie of London, sens the Conqueste, dyligentely collected by Iohn Stovv citisen of London, in the yere of our Lorde God Whervnto is added a table in the end, conteynyng all the principall matters of this booke.
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