| Years |
Name |
Religion |
Known For |
| 0-32 |
Jesus of Nazareth |
Jewish |
Life, example, teachings, impacted history |
| 971-1030 |
Mahmud of Ghazna |
Islam |
Ghazis warrior of an expansionist Islam, patron of scientists and poets |
| 127-1087 |
William the Conqueror |
Catholic |
Pioneered state bureaucracy for Europe |
| 1138-1193 |
Saladin Auuib |
Sunni Islam |
Fought crusaders, demonstrated diplomatic administrator exercising human justice |
| 1147-1199 |
Yoritomo |
Shinto |
Shogun or barbarian-subduing general, defeated Japanese Emperor at Kyoto |
| 1167-1227 |
Ghenghis Khan |
Mongol |
Absobed the technology of conquered cultures into a war of conquest |
| 1182-1226 |
Francis of Assisi |
Catholic Friars |
Changed regard for outcasts, lepers, poor |
| 1267-1337 |
Giotto |
Catholic |
Painted bible stories and tales of saints on Italy's cathedral walls |
| 1328-1398 |
Zhu Yuanzhang |
Warlord |
As first Emperor of China's Ming dynasty, decreed demographic concentration |
| 1395-1468 |
Jhann Gutenberg |
Catholic |
Printing Press |
| 1412-1431 |
Joan of Arc |
Catholic |
Defeated English at Orleans |
| 1451-1506 |
C. Columbus |
Catholic |
Discovered Americas |
| 1452-1519 |
Leonardo di Vinci |
Catholic |
Artist, inventor, scientist, pathologist, aeronautical engineer, military engineer |
| 1483-1520 |
Raphael |
Catholic |
Painter |
| 1473-1543 |
Copernicus |
Catholic |
Heliocentric universe |
| 1475-1564 |
Michelangelo |
Catholic |
Artist, sculptor |
| 1483-1546 |
Martin Luther |
Catholic |
95 Theses of Papal excess - Luthern |
| 1533-1603 |
Queen ElizabethI |
Church England |
United the British Isles |
| 1564-1616 |
Wm Shakespeare |
Church England |
Defined humanity with stories and verse |
| 1564-1642 |
Galileo Galilei |
Catholic |
Mathematician, astronomer, physics laws |
| 1642-1727 |
Isaac Newton |
Church of England |
Defined laws of motion and a predictable and rational clockwork creation |
| 1706-1790 |
Benjamin Franklin |
Puritan |
Invented lightening rod, Franklin Stove, bifocal lens, printer, publisher, politician |
| 1743-1826 |
Thomas Jefferson |
Unitarian |
Naturalist, lawyer, educator, musician, architect, geographer, inventor, politician |
| 1770-1827 |
L. van Beethoven |
Catholic |
Composer |
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