The "Gunpowder Plot" misfired, Galileo showed off his telescope, and Australia was discovered by Dirk Hartog in what century?

The 17th-century Gunpowder Plot, designed to blow up the Houses of Parliament in Britain, was thwarted in 1605 and all the perpetrators hanged. A few years later, in 1611, Galileo exhibited his telescope to the pontifical court – an introduction that would not go over well for him, as he was prosecuted for heresy years later for his crazy view that the Earth revolved around the Sun. And Australia was discovered in 1616 by Dutch sea captain Dirk Hartog after his ship was blown off-course.

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