1633 - Events.
February 13 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
March 1 - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
June 22 - Catholic church forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric view of the solar system. Eppur si muove.
Jews of Poznan are granted a privilege of forbidding Christians to enter into their city quarter.
In Ethiopia, Negus Fasilidas expels foreign mi ...
At the end of June (around 29th) 1633 a strong Tatar group of Bucak Orde (about 1000 strong) raided area of Kamieniec Podolski (Kamianets-Podilskyi) city and fortress. They could have been send by Abazy as a reconnaissance force, but it is as probable that they just showed their own initiative and wanted to pillage of their own account without knowledge about the incoming war, as Ottoman Tatars and Commonwealth Cossacks conduced a semi-permanent war of constant raids and counter-raids since at least mid-16th century. This raid was quite short and after a day or two T ...
Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 - 1653) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early Baroque painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio (the "Caravaggisti"). In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community, she was the first female painter to become a member of the Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno in Florence. She was also one of the first female artists to paint historical and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a woman's reach.Including:
April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). There are 269 days remaining.
April 6 - Events.
648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia
1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1327 - The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of Saint Claire ...
August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining.
The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
August 10 - Events.
612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
AD 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: O ...
April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). There are 270 days remaining.
April 5 - Events.
33 - (traditional date) Resurrection of Jesus, according to the Christian gospels. (date est. by Sir Isaac Newton)
1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
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April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining.
April 3 - Events.
33 - Crucifixion of Jesus (traditional date)
1077 - Creation of the first Parliament of Friuli
1559 - The treaty, Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
1860 - The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins, and is completed on April 13).
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This entry contains a timeline of the development of Judaism and the Jewish people. Note that all dates are given according to the Common Era (Christian), not the Jewish calendar.
For more detailed information on Jewish history, including links to individual country histories, see Jewish history.
Timeline of Jewish history - Biblical history.
A separate article exists on the timeline of Biblical characters and the Israelites. See the entry on the history of ancient Israel and Judah. Note, however, that the ...
Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. It is caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor. V. major is the more deadly form, with a typical mortality of 20-40 percent of those infected. The other type, V. minor, only kills 1% of its victims. Many survivors are left blind in one or both eyes from corneal ulcerations, and persistent skin scarring - pockmarks - is nearly universal. Smallpox was respo ...
The term Inquisition (Latin: Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis Sanctum Officium) refers broadly to a number of historical movements surrounding the suppression of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. There were four major movements, starting with the Medieval Inquisition in 1184 and ending with the Spanish Inquisition in 1834.
Inquisition - Origin.
The Inquisition was an institution within the Roman Catholic Church, charged with the eradication of heresies.
Heresies (from Greek haeresis, ...
In astronomy, heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Universe and/or the Solar System. The word is derived from the Greek (Helios = "Sun" and kentron = "Center"). Historically, heliocentrism is opposed to geocentrism and currently to modern geocentrism, which places the earth at the center. (The distinction between the Solar System and the Universe was not clear until modern times, but extremely important relative to the controversy over cosmology and religion.) In the 16th and 17th centuries, w ...
Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.
Congregational church - Origins.
Many Congregational churches trace their descent from the original Congregational Church, a family of Protestant denominations formed on a theory of union published by the theologian Robert Browne in 1592 and arising from the Nonconformist religious movement in England during the Puritan refo ...
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar.
17th century - Events.
1601: Battle of Kinsale, the most important battle in Irish history, fought.
1602: Dutch East India Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1603: Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1603: Tokugawa Ieyas ...
Adam Olearius (born Adam Oehlschlaeger) (1603-1671), German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian. He became secretary to the ambassador sent by the duke of Holstein-Gottorp to the Shah of Persia, and published two books about the events and observations during his travels.
Adam Olearius - Travels.
He was born at Aschersleben, near Magdeburg. After studying at Leipzig he became librarian and court mathematician to Duke Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp, and in 1633 he was appointed secreta ...
April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). There are 255 days remaining.
April 20 - Events.
1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion.
1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
1770 - Lieutenant James Cook's expedition (first voyage) makes first sighting of eastern Australian ...
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). There are 263 days remaining.
April 12 - Events.
467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
1606 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
1633 - The formal interrogation by the Inquisition of Galileo Galilei begins.
1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the ...
Sir Anthony (Anton) van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish painter — mainly of portraits — who became the leading court painter in England. He was also a master of etching.
Van Dyck was born in Antwerp and became an independent painter in 1615. In his younger years, he was the chief assistant of Peter Paul Rubens. In 1620, he came to England for the first time but did not succeed in getting presented to King James I. After four months he returned to Flanders. He then went to Italy where he ...
Île Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) is a sub-antarctic island located at 37°52′S 77°32′E. Île Amsterdam was discovered by the Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano on March 18, 1522. Elcano did not name the island, however. Having found the island unnamed, Dutch captain Anthonie van Diemen named it after his ship in 1633. The island is volcanic but is currently inactive. It has an area of 55 km2 (21 mi2), measuring 21 km (13 mi) on its longest side, and reaches as high as 867 m (2844 ft) at the Mont de la D ...
April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April.
April 30 - Events.
313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
711 - Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit, m ...
August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 133 days remaining.
August 20 - Events.
636 - Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
917 - Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out.
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