Age of Discovery
c. 1420–c. 1650
European voyages that opened sea routes around the world.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 1420–c. 1650
- Place
- Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Who was alive during Age of Discovery
- Tomás de Torquemada 1420–1498, inquisitor
- Donato Bramante 1444–1514, architect
- Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519, polymath
- Piri Reis c. 1465–1553, admiral and cartographer
- Erasmus 1466–1536, humanist
- Guru Nanak 1469–1539, religious leader
- Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543, astronomer
- Michelangelo 1475–1564, artist
- Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478–1546, admiral
- Titian c. 1488–1576, painter
- Sinan c. 1490–1588, architect
- Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566, sultan
- Andrea Palladio 1508–1580, architect
- Teresa of Ávila 1515–1582, mystic
- Tintoretto 1518–1594, painter
- Grace O'Malley c. 1530–c. 1603, pirate
- Elizabeth I 1533–1603, queen
- El Greco 1541–1614, painter
- Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543–1616, shogun
- Miguel de Cervantes 1547–1616, writer
- Galileo Galilei 1564–1642, astronomer
- Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643, composer
- Samuel de Champlain c. 1567–1635, explorer
- William Harvey 1578–1657, physician