1450-1750 (Early Modern: People) By Maggiemoo112 Jan 24, 1415 Prince Henry the Navigator Jan 25, 1432 Mehmed II (birth) Jan 25, 1464 Sunni Ali (start of reign) Jan 25, 1471 Pizarro (birth) Jan 25, 1481 Mehmed II (death) Jan 25, 1483 Martin Luther (birth) Jan 25, 1485 Cortes (birth) Jan 24, 1488 Bartolomeu Dias Jan 25, 1491 Loyola (birth) Jan 24, 1492 Christopher Columbus Jan 25, 1492 Sunni Ali (end of reign) Jan 24, 1498 Vasco de Gama Jan 25, 1498 Machiavelli Jan 25, 1501 Shah Ismail (start of reign) Jan 25, 1502 Montezuma (start of reign) Jan 25, 1509 John Calvin (birth) Jan 24, 1513 Vasco de Balboa Jan 25, 1519 Ferdinand Magellan Jan 25, 1520 Montezuma (end of reign) Jan 25, 1520 Suleyman (start of reign) Jan 25, 1524 Shah Ismail (end of reign) Jan 25, 1525 Atahualpa Jan 25, 1541 Pizarro (death) Jan 25, 1546 Martin Luther (death) Jan 25, 1547 Cortes (death) Jan 25, 1556 Loyola (death) Jan 25, 1556 Akbar (start of reign) Jan 25, 1564 Galileo (birth) Jan 25, 1564 John Calvin (death) Jan 25, 1566 Suleyman (end of reign) Jan 25, 1602 Matteo Ricci Jan 25, 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu (start of reign) Jan 25, 1605 Akbar (end of reign) Jan 25, 1605 Tokugawa Ieyasu (end of reign) Jan 25, 1632 Locke (birth) Jan 25, 1642 Galileo (death) Jan 25, 1643 Louis XIV (birth) Jan 25, 1651 Hobbes Jan 25, 1661 Kangxi (birth) Jan 25, 1694 Voltaire (birth) Jan 25, 1704 Locke (death) Jan 25, 1712 Rousseau (birth) Jan 25, 1715 Louis XIV (death) Jan 25, 1722 Kangxi (death) Jan 25, 1735 Qianlong (start of reign) Jan 25, 1763 Peter and Catherine the Great's reign Jan 25, 1778 Rousseau (death) Jan 25, 1778 Voltaire (death) Jan 25, 1796 Peter and Cathrine the Great's reign ends Jan 25, 1796 Qianlong (end of reign)