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