Innovation 1450-1750
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Updated: 18 Feb 2020
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1760: Beginning of the Industrial Revolution1434: First Portuguese expedition south of Morocco1473: Nicholas Copernicus born1488: Bartolomeo Diaz reaches Indian Ocean1492: Columbus reaches the Americas1498: Vasco de Gama sails to India1543: Scientific Revolution begins1522: Ferdinand Magellan's crew circumnavigates the world1546: Tycho Brahe born1571: Johannes Kepler born1582: Pope Gregory XIII issues Gregorian Calendar1595: Rene Descartes born1600: Fluit ship created in Netherlands1609: Galileo Galilei builds the first telescope1627: Robert Boyle born1642: Isaac Newton born1688: Alexander Pope born1690: John Locke writes Second Treatise of Civil Government1694: Voltaire born1715: Enlightenment begins1714: Daniel Fahrenheit invents the mercury-in-glass thermometer
1724: Fahrenheit scale defined1644: Evangelista Toricelli invents the barometer1440: Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press
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