Edo Period
1603–1868
Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- 1603–1868
- Place
- Japan
Who was alive during Edo Period
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598–1680, sculptor
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727, scientist
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745, satirist
- 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
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- John Adams 1735–1826, US president
- Paul Revere 1735–1818, American patriot
- James Watt 1736–1819, inventor
- Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826, US president
- Francisco Goya 1746–1828, painter
- Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, painter
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832, writer
- Betsy Ross 1752–1836, American patriot
- Katsushika Hokusai 1760–1849, artist
- Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859, naturalist and explorer
- William Wordsworth 1770–1850, poet
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855, mathematician
- Charles Babbage 1791–1871, mathematician