Author: Rock Justice

Rock graduated from The University where he studied the philosophies of different cultures from around the world. After graduating The University, Rock studied various martial arts and worked as a PI. Rock traveled the world, using his skills to helping others those who had suffered an injustice. After The Syndicate started their nefarious activities, Rock was drafted by The Time Detectives. He graduated with The Time Detective Academy with honors and was immediately place on the front lines on the war against The Syndicate.

The idea of Statistics is created

1662-12-01 00:00:00 Graunt and others start to systematically summarize demographic and economic data using statistical ideas based on mathematics. 213000

The age of Enlightment

1650-12-01 00:00:00 Enter story info here 211000

Renee Descartes

1637-12-01 00:00:00 René Descartes introduces coordinate systems to allow geometry to be studied using algebra. 210001

Johannes Keppler

1627-12-01 00:00:00 Kepler’s Rudolphine Tables list the positions of 1,406 stars and procedures for locating the planets. 210000

First Steam Engine Patented

1606-12-01 00:00:00 The Spanish inventor Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont patented in 1606 the first steam engine. 209000

First published dictionary

1604-12-01 00:00:00 Robert Cawdrey publishes a dictionary with definitions for 2,543 terms. 208000

Gregorian Calendar

1582-12-01 00:00:00 Pope Gregory XIII establishes the modern calendar, changing the leap year rule for years divisible by 100. 207000

First Colony in Continental United States

1565-12-01 00:00:00 Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. Forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years before the Pilgrims[…]

Juan Juadriguez Cabrillo

1543-01-03 00:00:00 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (Portuguese: João Rodrigues Cabrilho; birth unknown, death January 3, 1543) was a Portuguese explorer noted for his exploration of the west coast of North America on behalf of Spanish[…]

Sir Francis Drake

1540-12-01 00:00:00 Sir Francis Drake, vice admiral (c._1540 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world[…]