Thirty Years' War
1618–1648
Devastating religious and political war in Central Europe.
- Type
- War
- Date
- 1618–1648
- Place
- Central Europe
Who was alive during Thirty Years' War
- Galileo Galilei 1564–1642, astronomer
- Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643, composer
- Samuel de Champlain c. 1567–1635, explorer
- Peter Paul Rubens 1577–1640, painter
- William Harvey 1578–1657, physician
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679, philosopher
- Kösem Sultan c. 1589–1651, Ottoman regent
- Shah Jahan 1592–1666, emperor
- Artemisia Gentileschi 1593–c. 1656, painter
- René Descartes 1596–1650, philosopher
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598–1680, sculptor
- Diego Velázquez 1599–1660, painter
- Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658, statesman
- Anthony van Dyck 1599–1641, painter
- Abel Tasman 1603–1659, explorer
- Rembrandt 1606–1669, painter
- Pierre de Fermat 1607–1665, mathematician
- John Milton 1608–1674, poet
- Evliya Çelebi 1611–c. 1682, traveler
- Molière 1622–1673, playwright
- Blaise Pascal 1623–1662, mathematician
- Margaret Cavendish 1623–1673, philosopher
- Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695, astronomer
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist