1592
Mathematics Chair at Padua
The Venetian Senate appoints Galileo professor of mathematics at the University of Padua.
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The Venetian Senate appoints Galileo professor of mathematics at the University of Padua.
Galileo gives his inaugural lecture at Padua, beginning eighteen productive years in the Venetian Republic.
Appointed Pope, the last pontiff to serve during the Counter-Reformation
Birth of Shahabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan
Michel de Montaigne dies at his estate, aged fifty-nine.
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