1450-1750 (Early Modern: People)

  • 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)

  • Matteo Ricci

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu (start of reign)

  • Akbar (end of reign)

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu (end of reign)

  • Locke (birth)

  • Galileo (death)

  • Louis XIV (birth)

  • Hobbes

  • Kangxi (birth)

  • Voltaire (birth)

  • Locke (death)

  • Rousseau (birth)

  • Louis XIV (death)

  • Kangxi (death)

  • Qianlong (start of reign)

  • Peter and Catherine the Great's reign

  • Rousseau (death)

  • Voltaire (death)

  • Peter and Cathrine the Great's reign ends

  • Qianlong (end of reign)