This Year in History:
1633
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
Galileo faces charges in the Roman Inquisition, Catherine Howard, Henry the 8th sixth wife loses her head, and Ray Charles wins his eighth Grammy in This Day in History video. The date is February 13th. Galileo faced charges because his theory of the planets orbits was deemed heresy by the Roman Catholic Church.
On February 13, 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. […]
On April 12, 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculani da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the […]
