Copernicus publishes heliocentrism
The Sun at the centre — the scientific revolution begins
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Nicolaus Copernicus's On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, printed in Nuremberg, put the Sun rather than the Earth at the centre. Published in the year of his death, it began the Scientific Revolution.
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Ivan IV was crowned tsar in 1547, four years after Copernicus published that the Earth goes round the Sun.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — 17 years earlier
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 4 years later
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — 12 years later
Middle East
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — 23 years earlier
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 14 years earlier
Asia
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — 17 years earlier
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 13 years later
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 13 years later
Americas
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — 24 years earlier
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — 22 years earlier
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 11 years earlier
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 1 year earlier
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 2 years later
Alive at the time
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 70)
- Michelangelo (aged 68)
- Martin Luther (aged 60)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 13)
- Elizabeth I (aged 10)
- Akbar the Great (aged 1)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 0)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 59)
- Hernán Cortés (aged 58)
- Henry VIII (aged 52)