Key Explorers of West Europe

Key Explorers of West Europe

List of People: Western Europe

Western Europe drove global exploration through pioneering navigators. From Spain and Portugal, Christopher Columbus unlocked transatlantic routes, and Vasco da Gama reached India. English corsair Francis Drake completed the second circumnavigation, while Jacques Cartier claimed Canada for France.

People

Birth Death Origin Age (Death)
1450
1550
1554
1561
1564
1570
1571
1577
1577
1578
1580
1581
1588
1590
1596
1599
1599
1605
1606
1627
1629
1630
1630
1632
1632
1632
1635
1640
1643
1644
1646
1684
1696
16th century: Unknown (thought to be born in the second half of the 16th century)

Timeline

Element
Year Western Europe
1450
Birth of John Cabot (Location: Gaeta or Castiglione Chiavarese (both in present-day Italy))
1499
Death of John Cabot
1550
Birth of John Davis (Location: Sandridge near Dartmouth, Devon, England (corresponds to the area around modern Stoke Gabriel))
1554
Birth of James Lancaster (Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire, England)
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))
1580
Birth of John Smith (Location: Willoughby (a village in Lincolnshire, England today). Near Alford.)
1581
Birth of Thomas Roe (Location: London (near Leyton in the modern London Borough of Waltham Forest))
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))
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))
1613
Death of Henry Middleton
1618
Death of James Lancaster
1620
Death of William Keeling
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)
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 Robert Hooke (Location: Freshwater, Isle of Wight; an area still known today as Freshwater in the western part of the Isle of Wight)
1638
Death of Thomas Best
1640
Birth of Gerald Aungier (Location: Presumed to be Dublin, Ireland)
1641
1642
Death of Galileo Galilei
1643
Birth of Isaac Newton (Location: Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire; a hamlet located near Grantham, England today)
1644
Birth of William Penn (Location: London (Tower Hill, England))
Death of Thomas Roe
1646
Birth of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Location: Leipzig, Germany)
1649
Death of John Winthrop
1650
Death of René Descartes
1657
Death of William Harvey
1660
1669
1675
Death of Cecil Calvert
1677
Death of Gerald Aungier
1684
Birth of Antoine Watteau (Location: Valenciennes (Valenciennes, Nord, present-day Hauts-de-France region, French Republic))
1687
1691
Death of Robert Boyle
1693
Death of Job Charnock
1695
1696
Birth of James Oglethorpe (Location: Godalming, Surrey, England (present-day Godalming))
1699
Death of Josiah Child
1703
Death of Robert Hooke
1716
1718
Death of William Penn
1721
Death of Antoine Watteau
1723
1727
Death of Isaac Newton
1785
Unknown
Birth of Henry Middleton (Location: Thought to be Chester (England, modern Cheshire, UK))

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