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Timeline
February 18, 1564:
· birth of Galileo Galilei in the Tuscan city of Pisa
1574:
· Galilei family moves to Florence
Summer 1581:
· Galileo enrolls in the University of Pisa to pursue
a degree in medicine
1585:
· Galileo leaves the University of Pisa without having
obtained a degree
Summer 1589:
· Galileo hired as a lecturer in mathematics at the
University of Pisa
1589-1592:
· Galileo teaches in Pisa, and reportedly makes his
famous velocity experiment, dropping objects off the leaning tower
to disprove Aristotle's theory that heavier objects fall faster
than lighter ones
1591:
· Death of Vincenzo Galilei, Galileo's father
Autumn 1592:
· Galileo takes post at the University of Padua
1600:
· Galileo's first daughter, Virginia, born in Padua
1601:
· Galileo's second daughter born
1604:
· Appearance of Kepler's Nova in the sky; Galileo debates
its significance with conservative scholars.
1606:
· Birth of Galileo's third child, a son
Summer 1609:
· News of the invention of the telescope reaches Italy;
Galileo develops his own device in August.
Autumn 1609:
· Galileo makes his first observations using his telescope,
discovers uneven surface of the moon.
January 1610:
· Galileo discovers four moons orbiting Jupiter
March 1610:
· Publication of Sidereus Nuncius, dedicated
to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo II
June 1610:
· Galileo leaves Padua to take a new, more lucrative
position in Tuscany
Spring 1611:
· Galileo travels to Rome, where he is cordially received
by the Jesuit astronomers and Pope Paul V
December 1614:
· Father Tommasso Caccini attacks Galileo in sermon
in Florence, and later denounces him to the Inquisition
December 1615:
· Galileo goes to Rome
March 1615:
· Papal commission issues edict against Copernican theory;
Cardinal Bellarmine orders Galileo to cease in his support of heliocentricity
June 1615:
· Galileo leaves Rome
September 1621:
· Death of Cardinal Bellarmine
June 1623:
· Urban VIII becomes Pope; Galileo visits him in Rome
October 1623:
· Galileo's treatise on comets, The Assayer, is
published with Urban VIII's blessing
1624-1629:
· Galileo works on his Dialogue Concerning the
Two Chief World Systems from his home outside Florence
February 1632:
· Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems published
in Florence, with tentative Papal approval
September 23, 1632:
· Galileo summoned to Rome
February 13, 1633:
· Galileo arrives in Rome
April 12, 1633:
· Galileo interrogated for the first time. Afterwards,
he is imprisoned in the Vatican for three weeks.
April 30, 1633:
· Galileo interrogated again, and allowed to return
to the home of the Tuscan ambassador
May 10, 1633:
· Third interrogation; Galileo begs for mercy.
June 21, 1633:
· Final interrogation. The following day, Galileo is
officially charged with heresy; he is forced to confess his errors,
renounce the Copernican system, and accept the Church's judgment.
He is sentenced to imprisonment "for a period determinable at
our pleasure."
December 1633:
· Galileo is allowed to return to the village of Arcetri,
outside Florence, where he lives under house arrest
April 2, 1634:
· Death of Virginia, now Sister Maria Celeste.
1637:
· Galileo's eyesight begins to fail.
1638:
· Galileo's Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences is
published in Holland. John Milton visits Galileo in Arcetri.
January 8, 1642:
· Death of Galileo
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