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Important People from the Renaissance,
Reformation, Age of Discovery, and the
Enlightenment
William Shakespeare
•William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
•Shakespeare was one of the worlds greatest writers and playwrights.
•Two of his most famous plays are Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
Leonardo da Vinci
•Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in the small Tuscan town of Vinci.
•Leonardo was a scientist, artist, inventor, and engineer.
•Leonardo was the original “Renaissance man.”
•He was great at everything he tried.
Michelangelo
•Michelangelo was born
March 6, 1475 in
Tuscany, Italy.
•Michelangelo was one
of the great artists of the
Renaissance.
•His most famous work
in the painting of the
Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Johann Gutenberg
•Johann Gutenberg was
born in Germany in
1398.
•Gutenberg invented the
printing press in Europe
in the 1450’s.
•The first book he printed
was the Bible.
Martin Luther
•Martin Luther was born November 10, 1483 in Germany.
•Martin Luther protested against the Catholic Church by nailing a list of 95 complaints to a door of a church.
•Luther is credited with starting the Reformation.
John Calvin
•John Calvin was born July 10, 1509 in France.
•Calvin was an important Christian thinker during the Reformation.
•Calvin began a new system of Christian thinking called Calvinism.
Galileo
•Galileo was Pisa, Italy in 1564.
•Galileo used instruments to observe nature.
•He was able to prove that the earth moves around the sun by using a telescope.
Christopher Columbus
•Columbus was born in
Genoa, Italy in 1451.
•In 1492, Columbus to
led the first expedition
to cross the Atlantic
Ocean, discovering the
New World for Europe.
Ferdinand Magellan
•Ferdinand Magellan
was born in Portugal
in 1481.
•Magellan led the first
crew to sail all the
way around the
world.
Isaac Newton
•Isaac Newton was
born on December
25, 1642.
•Isaac Newton was a
scientist and
mathematician.
•Newton studied the
laws of motion and
gravity.
Prince Henry the Navigator•Prince Henry was born
in Portugal in 1394.
•Prince Henry opened a navigation school and sent many voyages from England to Africa.
•He was nicknamed “the Navigator” because he was responsible for sending so many voyages.
King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella•The King and Queen of Spain financed the
voyages of Columbus to the “New World.”
Henry VIII
•King Henry VIII was
born on June 28, 1491
in England.
•Henry is famous for his
six wives and starting
his own church of
England when the pope
forbid him to divorce his
wife.
Queen Elizabeth I
•Queen Elizabeth I was born in England in 1533.
•She is recognized as the best queen England ever had.
•Here reign saw many accomplishments including Shakespeare’s plays and Drake’s explorations.
Francisco Pizarro
•Francisco Pizarro
was born in Spain in
1475.
•Pizarro was an
Italian explorer and
conqueror of the
Incas.
Hernando Cortes
•Hernando Cortes was born December 2, 1485 in Spain.
•Cortes was the conquistador who conquered the Aztecs and Mexico for Spain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
•Jean-Jacques
Rousseau was born
on June 28, 1712 in
Switzerland.
•Rousseau was a
philosopher who
said that man was
essentially good by
nature.
Voltaire
•Voltarie was born
November 21, 1694
in Paris, France.
•Voltaire was the
greatest French
author and
philosopher.
John Locke
•John Locke war born
August 29, 1632 in
England.
•Locke was the father of
liberal philosophy.
•His ideas helped lead to
the American
Revolution.
Nicolaus Copernicus
•Nicolaus Copernicus
was born February 19,
1473 in Poland.
•Copernicus was the first
astronomer who said
the earth moved around
the sun.