Brahe and Kepler Meet
Feb 4 Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time near Prague
- 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
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Gangsters
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Industrialists
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