1997 Event Galileo, Ganymede Observations, Orbit 9 1997 Event Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby, Orbit 9 1997 Event Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8) 1997 Event Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7) 1995 Event U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter 1992 Event Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km) 1992 Event Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) 1992 Event Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years 1990 Event Galileo Earth-1 Flyby 1990 Event Galileo flies by Venus 1897 Death Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49 1847 Birthday Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, 2-fasenmotor 1737 Event Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy 1642 Death Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy 1633 Event Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong) 1633 Event Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views 1633 Event Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1621 Event Galileo invents telescope 1616 Event Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo 1613 Event Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees 1613 Event Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune 1610 Event Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter 1610 Event Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede 1610 Event German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610 1609 Event Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers 1609 Event Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope 1564 Birthday Galileo Galilei, born in Pisa, Italy, astronomer and physicist
