Event of Interest Feb 4 Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time near Prague AstronomerTycho Brahe AstronomerJohannes Kepler Feb 8 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death Feb 17 Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged with heresy by the Roman Inquisition Feb 19 Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in South American recorded history 1599 Historical Events by Year 1601