Key Explorers of Central Europe

List of People: Central Europe

Central European figures left a vital mark during the Age of Discovery. Cosmographers like Martin Waldseemüller mapped the New World, naming "America." Meanwhile, financiers like the Fugger family bankrated major imperial expeditions, funding global trade routes and transatlantic expansion.

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Year	Central Europe
1546	Birth of Tycho Brahe (Location: Near Svalöv, Scania (present-day Sweden))
1552	Birth of Rudolf II (Location: Vienna)
1557	Birth of Matthias (Location: Vienna)
1577	Birth of Peter Paul Rubens (Location: Siegen (Germany, present-day North Rhine-Westphalia))
1578	Birth of Ferdinand II (Location: Graz)
1580	Birth of Philip Clüver (Location: Gdańsk (Poland)) Birth of Jan Baptist van Helmont (Location: Brussels (Belgium))
1585	Birth of Heinrich Schütz (Location: Bad Köstritz (present-day Thuringia, Germany))
1601	Death of Tycho Brahe
1608	Birth of Ferdinand Ernst (Location: Graz)
1610	Birth of Georg Marcgrave (Location: Liebstadt (Germany))
1612	Death of Rudolf II
1619	Death of Matthias
1622	Death of Philip Clüver
1629	Birth of Jan Sobieski (Location: Olesko (present-day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine))
1635	Birth of Kara Mustafa Pasha (Location: Kara Mustafa Pasha (a village located in present-day Merzifon District, Amasya Province, Turkey; currently named Karamustafapaşa after him))
1637	Birth of Dieterich Buxtehude (Location: Helsingborg (present-day Skåne County, Sweden). However, theories also name Oldesloe (present-day Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) or Helsingør (present-day Denmark) as his birthplace.) Death of Ferdinand II
1640	Death of Peter Paul Rubens Birth of Leopold Felician (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria)) Birth of Leopold I (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1643	Birth of Charles V (Location: Vienna (present-day Vienna, Austria))
1644	Death of Georg Marcgrave Death of Jan Baptist van Helmont
1647	Birth of Maria Sibylla Merian (Location: Frankfurt am Main (Germany))
1653	Birth of Johann Pachelbel (Location: Nuremberg (present-day Bavaria, Germany))
1657	Death of Ferdinand Ernst
1659	Birth of Georg Ernst Stahl (Location: Ansbach (Germany))
1663	Birth of Prince Eugene (Location: Paris (present-day France))
1668	Birth of Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt (Location: Genoa (present-day Liguria, Italy))
1672	Death of Heinrich Schütz
1681	Birth of Georg Philipp Telemann (Location: Magdeburg (present-day Saxony-Anhalt, Germany))
1683	Birth of Lorenz Heister (Location: Frankfurt am Main (Germany)) Death of Kara Mustafa Pasha
1685	Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach (Location: Eisenach (Thuringia, Germany)) Birth of Charles VI (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1687	Birth of Johann Balthasar Neumann (Location: Cheb, Czech Republic (formerly Eger))
1690	Death of Charles V
1696	Death of Jan Sobieski
1705	Death of Leopold Felician Death of Leopold I
1706	Death of Johann Pachelbel
1707	Death of Dieterich Buxtehude
1708	Birth of Albrecht von Haller (Location: Bern (Switzerland))
1709	Birth of Johann Georg Gmelin (Location: Tübingen (Germany))
1717	Death of Maria Sibylla Merian Birth of Maria Theresa (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1734	Death of Georg Ernst Stahl
1736	Death of Prince Eugene
1740	Death of Charles VI
1745	Death of Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
1750	Death of Johann Sebastian Bach
1753	Death of Johann Balthasar Neumann
1755	Death of Johann Georg Gmelin
1758	Death of Lorenz Heister
1767	Death of Georg Philipp Telemann
1777	Death of Albrecht von Haller
1780	Death of Maria Theresa

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