Jan Amos Comenius
1592–1670 · Person
Czech bishop of the Unity of the Brethren and father of modern education — universal schooling, teaching in the vernacular, learning through pictures.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Master, People
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1592
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)