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IT	Se	Ay	1609	Aug	08	Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei’s telescope
IT	Se	Ay			25	Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
EU	Se	Ay	1610	Jan	01	German astronomer Simon Marius first discovers the moons of Jupiter, but does not officially report it, Galileo Galilei does on July 1, 1610
EU	Se	Ay			07	Galileo Galilei discovers the third and fourth satellites of Jupiter, Ganymede and Callisto
EU	Se	Ay			08	Galileo Galilei discovers the two satellites closest to Jupiter, Io and Europa
IT	Se	Ay	1613	Jan	27	Galileo Galilei observes Neptune (for the second time) but believes it is a star
EU	Se	Ay			28	Galileo Galilei may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
IT	Sc	Rn	1616	Feb	26	Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo Galilei
IT	Se	Iv	1621	Dec	03	Galileo Galilei invents telescope
IT	Se	Ay	1633	Feb	13	Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
IT	Sc	Lc		Apr	12	Galileo Galilei is convicted of heresy
IT	Sc	Lc		Jun	22	Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his belief that Earth orbits the sun (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)
IT	Sc	Bd	1642	Jan	08	Galileo Galilei dies in Italy at age 77 in Italy
IT	Sc	Bd	1737	Mar	12	Galileo Galilei’s body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy