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Jean Bullant. Agnolo Bronzino. Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Jan Brueghel the Younger. Filippo Brunelleschi. Marco Cardisco. Juan de Castillo. Androuet du Cerceau.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 September 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. The following is a list of explorers. Their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries when they were active and main areas of ...
e. The founding fathers of the European Union are men who are considered to be major contributors to European unity and the development of what is now the European Union. The number and list of the founding fathers of the EU varies depending on the source. In a publication from 2013 the European Union listed 11 men.
Famous for having added an area three times the size of France to the French empire in Africa. Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), explorer. Was the first European to arrive at the Amazon River in South America. The name for the Americas is derived from his given name. Romolo Gessi (1831–1881), explorer and soldier.
Biologist, author of L'Histoire Naturelle considered Natural Selection and the similarities between humans and apes. Edmund Burke. 1729–1797. Irish. Parliamentarian and political philosopher, best known for pragmatism, considered important to both Enlightenment and conservative thinking. Joseph Butler. 1692–1752.
Lists of Serbian people (4 C, 16 P) Lists of Slovak people (3 C, 9 P) Lists of Slovenian people (3 C, 6 P) Lists of Soviet people (5 C, 3 P) Lists of Spanish people (7 C, 22 P) Lists of Swedish people (4 C, 16 P) Lists of Swiss people (4 C, 16 P)
History of Europe. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the ...
Gauls. The Gauls (Latin: Galli; Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD). Their homeland was known as Gaul (Gallia). They spoke Gaulish, a continental Celtic language.