History of Astronomy

  • Period: 250 BCE to 450

    Age of Ancient Empires

  • 190 BCE

    Hipparchus Born

    Hipparchus, The Great Astronomer of Antiquity
  • 146 BCE

    Rome Conquers Greece

  • 129 BCE

    Hipparchus completes the first star catalog

  • 127 BCE

    Hipparchus Dies

  • 4 BCE

    Jesus the Messiah

  • 30

    Pentecost and the Early Church

  • 64

    Persecution Spreads the Gospel

  • 70

    Herod's Temple Destroyed by Titus

  • 100

    Ptolemy Born

  • 129

    Galen born

  • 150

    Ptolemy Completes Almagest

  • 168

    Ptolemy dies

  • 216

    Galen Dies

  • Period: 450 to 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci born

  • 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus born

  • 1478

    Spanish Inquisition

  • 1492

    Columbus Sails to Caribbean

  • 1500

    Middle Ages End

  • 1500

    Age of Absolute Monarch Begin

  • Period: 1500 to

    Age of Absolute Monarchs

  • 1517

    Protestant Reformation

  • 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci dies

  • 1519

    Spanish Conquistadors in the America

  • 1536

    Calvin's Institute of the Christian Religion

  • 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus dies

  • 1564

    Galileo Born

  • 1571

    Kepler born

  • Baroch Period of the Arts Begin

  • Japan's Isolation

  • Jamestown colony founded

  • Plymouth colony founded

  • Cassini born

  • Kepler dies

  • Galileo Dies

  • Sir Isaac Newton

  • Period: to

    Age of Enlightenment

  • Hudson's Bay Company

  • Cassini dies

  • Sir Isaac Newton dies

  • Baroch Period of the Arts End

  • Period: to

    Age of Industry

  • Age of Absolute Monarch End

  • Period: to

    Age of Information and Globalisation