1589
| 1589 • Job is elected as the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. |
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 • Johannes Kepler publishes Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo in response to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons. |