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🔠Early Modern
1500–1800 AD.
12,058 historical figures, born between 1500 and 1799, across 198 countries.
Birth years 1500 to 1799 · 198 countries · 7 continents · Main fields: Politics (3,465), Arts & Music (2,590), Literature (1,374), Military (1,304), Science (1,285), Religion (788)
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A historical figure from Early Modern is shown
Drop a pin on the world map where you think they were born
Score by how close you are, over five rounds
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Who you might get
48 of 12,058 figures in this map. Birthplaces are hidden — that's what the game asks you to guess.
George Washington b. 1732
Isaac Newton b. 1642
William Shakespeare b. 1564
Elizabeth I b. 1533
Napoleon b. 1769
Rembrandt b. 1606
Benjamin Franklin b. 1706
Catherine the Great b. 1729
Alexander Hamilton b. 1757
Andrew Jackson b. 1767
Mary, Queen of Scots b. 1542
George III b. 1738
James VI and I b. 1566
Charles I of England b. 1600
John Adams b. 1735
Louis XIV b. 1638
Anne Boleyn b. 1507
Thomas Jefferson b. 1743
Marie Antoinette b. 1755
Mary Shelley b. 1797
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart b. 1756
Jane Austen b. 1775
Ludwig van Beethoven b. 1770
Immanuel Kant b. 1724
Galileo Galilei b. 1564
James Madison b. 1751
Edward VI b. 1537
Anne, Queen of Great Britain b. 1665
George IV b. 1762
Lady Jane Grey b. 1537
John Quincy Adams b. 1767
William IV b. 1765
Louis XVI b. 1754
Oliver Cromwell b. 1599
Aurangzeb b. 1618
Akbar b. 1542
Shivaji b. 1627
Johann Sebastian Bach b. 1685
James Cook b. 1728
Lord Byron b. 1788
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor b. 1500
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe b. 1749
John Locke b. 1632
James Buchanan b. 1791
René Descartes b. 1596
George I of Great Britain b. 1660
Maximilien Robespierre b. 1758
George II of Great Britain b. 1683
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