Ottoman Empire
c. 1299–1922
Turkish-led empire that ruled much of southeastern Europe, western Asia and North Africa.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 1299–1922
- Place
- Anatolia
Who was alive during Ottoman Empire
- Piri Reis c. 1465–1553, admiral and cartographer
- Michelangelo 1475–1564, artist
- Titian c. 1488–1576, painter
- Sinan c. 1490–1588, architect
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679, philosopher
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727, scientist
- 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
- John Adams 1735–1826, US president
- Betsy Ross 1752–1836, American patriot
- Katsushika Hokusai 1760–1849, artist
- Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859, naturalist and explorer
- Sojourner Truth c. 1797–1883, abolitionist
- Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901, composer
- Florence Nightingale 1820–1910, nurse
- Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906, suffragist
- Clara Barton 1821–1912, nurse
- Mary Baker Eddy 1821–1910, religious leader
- Harriet Tubman c. 1822–1913, abolitionist
- Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919, steel magnate