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Pages in category "Lists of European people" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. L.
This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance. Artists and architects Filippo ...
Leonardo's most famous painting of the 1490s is The Last Supper, commissioned for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan. It represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death, and shows the moment when Jesus has just said "one of you will betray me", and the consternation that ...
Philosopher and mathematician famous for developing the theory of subjective idealism. [4] Justus Henning Boehmer: 1674–1749: German: Ecclesiastical jurist, one of the first reformers of the church law and the civil law which was the basis for further reforms and maintained until the 20th century. Ruđer Josip Bošković (Roger Joseph ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
Further men who have been considered founding fathers are: Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) who founded the association "Young Europe" in 1834 with the vision of a united continent; [13] Victor Hugo (1802–1885) who made a speech where he called for United States of Europe in 1849 at the International Peace Congress of Paris; Milan Hodža (1878 ...
Juan Ponce de León (1460–1521), first European to explore Florida (1513); founded the first European settlement in Puerto Rico (1508) Alonso del Castillo Maldonado (died c. 1540), explorer and one of the four last survivors of the Narváez expedition. Gaspar de Portolà (c. 1717–aft. 1784), explorer, founder of Monterey, California
Martin Conway (born 1960), British scholar of European history; John Milton Cooper (born 1940), Woodrow Wilson; Peter Cottrell (born 1964), Anglo-Irish; Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005), German and diplomatic; Catherine Crary (1909–1974), American Revolution; Donald Creighton (1902–1979), Canadian; Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), European and ...