Copernicus Born in Torun
February 19, 1473
In a brick merchant's house on the Vistula, a boy was born who would eventually argue that the sun, not the earth, sat still at the center of things. He would study canon law in Italy, treat patients as a small-town canon in Frombork, and hold his heresy in reserve until his deathbed.
In context
Also in 1473 (3 other events on record)
- Aztec Tlatelolco Market at Full Scale · North America · Politics
- Inca Terracing System Perfected · South America · Technology
- Battle of Otlukbeli · Middle East · War
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Science
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.