Early Modern Period
c. 1500–c. 1800
The age of global exploration, the printing press, early science and strong states.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 1500–c. 1800
- Place
- Worldwide
Who was alive during Early Modern Period
- Titian c. 1488–1576, painter
- Sinan c. 1490–1588, architect
- Tintoretto 1518–1594, painter
- Galileo Galilei 1564–1642, astronomer
- Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643, composer
- William Harvey 1578–1657, physician
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679, philosopher
- Shah Jahan 1592–1666, emperor
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598–1680, sculptor
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
- Louis XIV 1638–1715, king
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727, scientist
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745, satirist
- George Frideric Handel 1685–1759, composer
- Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
- Anne Bonny c. 1697–c. 1782, pirate
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703–1792, religious leader
- John Wesley 1703–1791, religious leader
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790, statesman and inventor
- Leonhard Euler 1707–1783, mathematician
- Samuel Johnson 1709–1784, writer
- Frederick the Great 1712–1786, king
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher