1589
| 1589 • Valkendorfs Kollegium is founded in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
1612
Age: 23y
marriageJohn Hygebed Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, England ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1612 • Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic. Neptune is not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sights it with his telescope. |
1615
Age: 26y
| 1615 • The New Netherland Company is granted a 3-year monopoly in North American trade between the 40th and 45th parallels. |
1684
Age: 95y
| 1684 • Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. |