Key Explorers of Discovery

Key Explorers of Discovery

Age of Discovery: List of People

The Age of Discovery was forged by daring navigators and visionaries. Prince Henry the Navigator launched Portugal’s maritime quest, inspiring Vasco da Gama to reach India. Christopher Columbus’s transatlantic voyage opened the Americas, while Ferdinand Magellan led the first global circumnavigation.

People

Birth Death Origin Age (Death)
1450
1546
1550
1552
1554
1557
1561
1564
1570
1571
1577
1577
1578
1578
1580
1580
1580
1581
1585
1588
1590
1596
1599
1599
1605
1606
1608
1610
1627
1629
1629
1630
1630
1632
1632
1632
1635
1635
1637
1640
1640
1640
1643
1643
1644
1646
1647
1653
1659
1663
1668
1681
1683
1684
1685
1685
1687
1696
1708
1709
1717
16th century: Unknown (thought to be born in the second half of the 16th century)

Timeline

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Year List of People
1450
Birth of John Cabot (Location: Gaeta or Castiglione Chiavarese (both in present-day Italy))
1499
Death of John Cabot
1546
Birth of Tycho Brahe (Location: Near Svalöv, Scania (present-day Sweden))
1550
Birth of John Davis (Location: Sandridge near Dartmouth, Devon, England (corresponds to the area around modern Stoke Gabriel))
1552
Birth of Rudolf II (Location: Vienna)
1554
Birth of James Lancaster (Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire, England)
1557
Birth of Matthias (Location: Vienna)
1561
Birth of Francis Bacon (Location: London (England, near present-day City of Westminster))
1564
Birth of Galileo Galilei (Location: Pisa, Italy)
1570
Birth of Thomas Best (Location: Unknown (no reliable sources confirming his birthplace have been verified))
1571
Birth of Johannes Kepler (Location: Weil der Stadt (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany))
1577
Birth of William Keeling (Location: Unknown)
Birth of Peter Paul Rubens (Location: Siegen (Germany, present-day North Rhine-Westphalia))
1578
Birth of William Harvey (Location: Folkestone (now Kent, England))
Birth of Ferdinand II (Location: Graz)
1580
Birth of Philip Clüver (Location: Gdańsk (Poland))
Birth of John Smith (Location: Willoughby (a village in Lincolnshire, England today). Near Alford.)
Birth of Jan Baptist van Helmont (Location: Brussels (Belgium))
1581
Birth of Thomas Roe (Location: London (near Leyton in the modern London Borough of Waltham Forest))
1585
Birth of Heinrich Schütz (Location: Bad Köstritz (present-day Thuringia, Germany))
1588
Birth of John Winthrop (Location: Edwardstone, Suffolk, England)
1590
Birth of William Bradford (Location: Austerfield, South Yorkshire, England)
1596
Birth of René Descartes (Location: Descartes (Indre-et-Loire, France); known as La Haye en Touraine at the time of his birth.)
1599
Birth of Anthony van Dyck (Location: Antwerp (Belgium))
Birth of Diego Velázquez (Location: Seville (Spain))
1601
Death of Tycho Brahe
1605
Birth of Cecil Calvert (Location: Kingdom of England, Kent (present-day Kent region in southeastern England))
Death of John Davis
1606
Birth of Rembrandt van Rijn (Location: Leiden (Netherlands))
1608
Birth of Ferdinand Ernst (Location: Graz)
1610
Birth of Georg Marcgrave (Location: Liebstadt (Germany))
1612
Death of Rudolf II
1613
Death of Henry Middleton
1618
Death of James Lancaster
1619
Death of Matthias
1620
Death of William Keeling
1622
Death of Philip Clüver
1626
Death of Francis Bacon
1627
Birth of Robert Boyle (Location: Lismore (now County Waterford, Republic of Ireland))
1629
Birth of Christiaan Huygens (Location: The Hague, Netherlands)
Birth of Jan Sobieski (Location: Olesko (present-day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine))
1630
Birth of Josiah Child (Location: London, England)
Birth of Job Charnock (Location: London, England)
Death of Johannes Kepler
1631
Death of John Smith
1632
Birth of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Location: Delft, Netherlands)
Birth of Johannes Vermeer (Location: Delft (Netherlands))
Birth of Giovanni Battista Lulli (Location: Florence (Florence, Tuscany, present-day Italian Republic))
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))
Birth of Robert Hooke (Location: Freshwater, Isle of Wight; an area still known today as Freshwater in the western part of the Isle of Wight)
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
1638
Death of Thomas Best
1640
Birth of Gerald Aungier (Location: Presumed to be Dublin, Ireland)
Birth of Leopold Felician (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
Birth of Leopold I (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1641
1642
Death of Galileo Galilei
1643
Birth of Charles V (Location: Vienna (present-day Vienna, Austria))
Birth of Isaac Newton (Location: Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire; a hamlet located near Grantham, England today)
1644
Death of Georg Marcgrave
Birth of William Penn (Location: London (Tower Hill, England))
Death of Thomas Roe
1646
Birth of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Location: Leipzig, Germany)
1647
Birth of Maria Sibylla Merian (Location: Frankfurt am Main (Germany))
1649
Death of John Winthrop
1650
Death of René Descartes
1653
Birth of Johann Pachelbel (Location: Nuremberg (present-day Bavaria, Germany))
1657
Death of Ferdinand Ernst
Death of William Harvey
1659
Birth of Georg Ernst Stahl (Location: Ansbach (Germany))
1660
1663
Birth of Prince Eugene (Location: Paris (present-day France))
1668
Birth of Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt (Location: Genoa (present-day Liguria, Italy))
1669
1672
1675
Death of Cecil Calvert
1677
Death of Gerald Aungier
1681
Birth of Georg Philipp Telemann (Location: Magdeburg (present-day Saxony-Anhalt, Germany))
1683
Birth of Lorenz Heister (Location: Frankfurt am Main (Germany))
1684
Birth of Antoine Watteau (Location: Valenciennes (Valenciennes, Nord, present-day Hauts-de-France region, French Republic))
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
1691
Death of Robert Boyle
1693
Death of Job Charnock
1695
1696
Death of Jan Sobieski
Birth of James Oglethorpe (Location: Godalming, Surrey, England (present-day Godalming))
1699
Death of Josiah Child
1703
Death of Robert Hooke
1705
Death of Leopold I
1706
1707
1708
Birth of Albrecht von Haller (Location: Bern (Switzerland))
1709
Birth of Johann Georg Gmelin (Location: Tübingen (Germany))
1716
1717
Birth of Maria Theresa (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1718
Death of William Penn
1721
Death of Antoine Watteau
1723
1727
Death of Isaac Newton
1734
1736
Death of Prince Eugene
1740
Death of Charles VI
1745
1750
1753
1755
1758
Death of Lorenz Heister
1767
1777
1780
Death of Maria Theresa
1785
Unknown
Birth of Henry Middleton (Location: Thought to be Chester (England, modern Cheshire, UK))

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