Before 1800 - Search results

Dom PERIGNON

French Benedictine monk

1639 - 1715

Samuel DE CHAMPLAIN

French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler, founder of Quebec

1574 - 1635

Alexander PUSHKIN

Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era

1799 - 1837

Diego VELÁZQUEZ

Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the Spanish Golden Age

1599 - 1660

Genghis KHAN

Founder and first Great Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire

1162 - 1227

Théodore GERICAULT

French painter and lithographer

1791 - 1824

Cesare BORGIA

Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal

1475 - 1507

Jacques-Louis DAVID

French painter in the Neoclassical style

1748 - 1825

William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK

British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain

1738 - 1809

Francis DRAKE

English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era

1540 - 1596

BEAUMARCHAIS

French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)

1732 - 1799

MAHOMET

Religious, political, and military leader

570 - 632

Francisco PIZARRO

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire

1478 - 1541

Leonardo DA VINCI

Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer

1452 - 1519