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  • Italy
    1619
    Galileo Galilei

    An Astronomical Disputation on the Three Comets

    Italy
    1619

    Because The Assayer contains such a wealth of Galileo's ideas on how science should be practised, it has been referred to as his scientific manifesto. Early in 1619, Father Grassi had anonymously published a pamphlet, An Astronomical Disputation on the Three Comets of the Year 1618, which discussed the nature of a comet that had appeared late in November of the previous year. Grassi concluded that the comet was a fiery body which had moved along a segment of a great circle at a constant distance from the earth, and since it moved in the sky more slowly than the Moon, it must be farther away than the Moon.




  • Virginia, U.S.
    1619
    Thanksgiving

    The modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition

    Virginia, U.S.
    1619

    The modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is traced to a well-recorded 1619 event in Virginia and a sparsely documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts.




  • Berkeley Hundred, Charles City County, Virginia, U.S.
    1619
    Thanksgiving

    38 English settlers

    Berkeley Hundred, Charles City County, Virginia, U.S.
    1619

    The 1619 arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia, concluded with a religious celebration as dictated by the group's charter from the London Company, which specifically required "that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned ... in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest, which the Pilgrims celebrated with Native Americans, who helped them get through the previous winter by giving them food in that time of scarcity.




  • Rome, Italy
    1619
    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo became embroiled in a controversy with Father Orazio Grassi

    Rome, Italy
    1619

    In 1619, Galileo became embroiled in a controversy with Father Orazio Grassi, professor of mathematics at the Jesuit Collegio Romano. It began as a dispute over the nature of comets, but by the time Galileo had published The Assayer (Il Saggiatore) in 1623, his last salvo in the dispute, it had become a much wider controversy over the very nature of science itself.




  • Italy
    1619
    Galileo Galilei

    Discourse on Comets

    Italy
    1619

    Grassi's arguments and conclusions were criticized in a subsequent article, Discourse on Comets, published under the name of one of Galileo's disciples, a Florentine lawyer named Mario Guiducci, although it had been largely written by Galileo himself.




  • Rees
    Monday Jun 24, 1619

    Rijcklof Volckertsz van Goens Birth

    Rees
    Monday Jun 24, 1619

    The Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Rijcklof Volckertsz van Goens, was born in Germany.




  • Moscow
    Monday Jun 24, 1619

    Filaret was patriarch of Moscow

    Moscow
    Monday Jun 24, 1619

    Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow.


  • Kraków
    Thursday Aug 15, 1619

    Miriam Bella's death

    Kraków
    Thursday Aug 15, 1619

    The head of the Jewish community of Krakw has passed away.


  • Antwerp
    Thursday Aug 15, 1619

    Hubertus Quellinus Birth

    Antwerp
    Thursday Aug 15, 1619

    A Flemish artist, born in Antwerp, Hubertus Quellinus, is known for his cartoons.


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