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What Happened in February 1600

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Historical Events

Brahe and Kepler Meet

Feb 4 Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time near Prague

Astronomer Tycho Brahe
Astronomer Johannes Kepler
  • Feb 8 Vatican convicts scholar and wayward friar Giordano Bruno of heresy and turn him over civil authorities upon his refusal to recant to mete out his punishment of death [1]
  • Feb 17 Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, convicted of heresy by the Roman Inquisition [1]
  • Feb 19 Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in South American recorded history
  • Feb 24 Last sighting of Dutch trading ship De Hoop by its sister ship De Liefde near the Mariana islands, it's never seen again
Events in 1600

Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 2 Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
Born in 1600

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 13 Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and poet (Trattato), dies at 61
  • Feb 15 Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)
  • Feb 17 Giordano Bruno, Italian friar and scholar, advocate of Copernican theory, executed at 51 or 52 (b. 1548) [1]

Famous People by their Chinese Zodiac Animal

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