1400 | 1450 | 1500 | 1550 | 1600 | 1650 | 1700 | 1750 | |
Religion | Nicholas de Cuse | Torquemada | Martin Luther | Giordano Bruno | Rene Descartes | Benedict Spinoza | George Berkeley | Emanuel Kant |
Science | Gutenberg | Christopher Columbus | Copernicus | Gilbert | Galileo | Sir Isaac Newton | Linnaeus | Antoine Lavoisier |
Literature | (death of) Chaucer | Francois Villon | Sir Thomas More | William Shakespeare | John Milton | Restoration comedy | Voltaire | Goethe |
Art | Fra Angelica | Leonardo da Vinci | Michelangelo | El Greco | Rembrandt | Vermeer | Hogarth | Jacques Louis David |
Music | Dufay | Josquin de Prez | Thomas Tallis | Palestrina | Monteverde | Henry Purcell | J. S. Bach | W. A. Mozart |
Politics | Joan of Arc | Lorenzo de Medici | Henry VIII | Elizabeth I | Oliver Cromwell | Louis XIV | Peter the Great | Am. & Fr. Revolutions |
Architecture | Alberti | Bramante | Andreas Palladio | ![]() |
Inigo Jones | Christopher Wren | Robert Adam | ![]() |