History of Astronomy By priscillajoshy 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: 1400 to 1600 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 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 1600 Baroch Period of the Arts Begin 1603 Japan's Isolation 1607 Jamestown colony founded 1620 Plymouth colony founded 1642 Galileo Dies 1750 Baroch Period of the Arts End 1800 Age of Absolute Monarch End