Early Modern era 145-1750 (People) By marynimus Jan 25, 1371 Zheng He Jan 25, 1415 Prince Henry the Navigator Jan 25, 1432 Mehmed II Jan 25, 1439 Gutenberg Jan 25, 1464 Sunni Ali Jan 25, 1473 Copernicus Jan 25, 1483 Martin Luther Jan 25, 1485 Cortes Jan 25, 1487 Shah Ismail Jan 25, 1488 Bartolomeu Jan 25, 1491 Loyola Jan 25, 1492 Christopher Columbus Jan 25, 1494 Suleyman Jan 25, 1498 Vasco da Gama Jan 25, 1498 Machiavelli Jan 25, 1502 Montezuma Jan 25, 1509 John Calvin Jan 25, 1513 Vasco De Balboa Jan 25, 1519 Ferdinand Magellan Jan 25, 1525 Atahualpa Jan 25, 1529 Pizarro Jan 25, 1542 Akbar Jan 25, 1602 Matteo Ricci Jan 25, 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu Jan 25, 1632 Locke Jan 25, 1643 Louis XIV Jan 25, 1651 Hobbes Jan 25, 1661 Kangxi Jan 25, 1694 Voltaire Jan 25, 1712 Rouseau Jan 25, 1735 Qianlong Jan 25, 1762 Peter/Catherine the great Jan 25, 1861 Galileo