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Alexander Pope
Literature & Poetry
13
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 925

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
21 May 1688 โ€“ 30 May 1744 (56 years old)

Supreme English poet of the Augustan Enlightenment whose glittering heroic couplets, translations of Homer's Iliad, and satirical masterworksโ€”An Essay on Criticism and The Rape of the Lockโ€”made him the second most quoted writer in English after Shakespeare.

Twickenham (London), Great Britain
Baji Rao I
Military Leaders & Strategists
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Baji Rao I

เคฌเคพเคœเฅ€เคฐเคพเคต เคฌเคฒเฅเคฒเคพเคณ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Maratha Empire
1700 โ€“ 1740 (39 years old)

Peshwa (Prime Minister) of the Maratha Empire who never lost a battle across forty-one engagements, renowned for lightning cavalry warfare and expanding Maratha rule to the gates of Delhi.

Raverkhedi (Madhya Pradesh), India
Peshwa Baji Rao I (The Undefeated)
Military Leaders & Strategists
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Peshwa Baji Rao I (The Undefeated)

เคถเฅเคฐเฅ€เคฎเค‚เคค เคชเฅ‡เคถเคตเฅ‡ เคฌเคพเคœเฅ€เคฐเคพเคต เคฌเคฒเฅเคฒเคพเคณ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Maratha Empire (India)
1700 โ€“ 1740 (39 years old)

7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire who fought in 41 major battles without suffering a single defeat, transforming the Marathas into the preeminent power in India.

Raverkhedi (Khargone), India
Yongzheng Emperor
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Yongzheng Emperor

้›ๆญฃๅธ (่ƒค็ฆ›)
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Qing Dynasty
1678 โ€“ 1735 (56 years old)

Fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1722โ€“1735) whose incorruptible work ethic, anti-corruption campaigns, establishment of the Grand Council, and tax reforms transformed the Qing imperial treasury and solidified the golden age of high Qing.

Yixian (Hebei), China
Ogyu Sorai
Philosophy & Thought
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ogyu Sorai

่ป็”Ÿ ๅพ‚ๅพ 
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1666 โ€“ 1728 (61 years old)

Revolutionary Edo-period Japanese Confucian philosopher and political theorist who founded the School of Ancient Learning (Kogaku), rejecting Song Neo-Confucian moralism in favor of utilitarian institutional statecraft.

Tokyo (Sumida), Japan
Moulay Ismail
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Moulay Ismail

ู…ูˆู„ุงูŠ ุฅุณู…ุงุนูŠู„ ุจู† ุงู„ุดุฑูŠู
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morroco
c. 1645 โ€“ 1727 (82 years old)

Longest-reigning sovereign in Moroccan history (1672โ€“1727), who consolidated the Alaouite Dynasty, created the formidable 150,000-man Black Guard (Jaysh al-Bukhari), expelled European garrisons from Larache and Tangier, and built the imperial capital of Meknes.

Meknes, Morocco
Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great / Pyotr Alekseyevich)
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,280

Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great / Pyotr Alekseyevich)

ะŸั‘ั‚ั€ I ะ’ะตะปะธะบะธะน (Pyotr Velikiy)
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
9 June 1672 โ€“ 8 February 1725 (52 years old)

Tsar and first Emperor of All Russia who dragged the Tsardom out of medieval isolation into a major European empire. Modernized the military, built the Russian navy, founded the imperial capital of Saint Petersburg, and reformed science and statecraft.

Saint Petersburg, Russia
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Literature & Poetry
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

่ฟ‘ๆพ้–€ๅทฆ่ก›้–€ (Sugimori Nobumori)
๐ŸŒ Edo Japan
1653 โ€“ 1725 (72 years old)

Japan's greatest dramatist (1653โ€“1725), known as the 'Shakespeare of Japan', who authored over a hundred puppet (joruri/bunraku) and kabuki plays exploring the tragic conflict between social duty (giri) and human emotion (ninjo).

Amagasaki (Hyogo), Japan
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Sciences & Discovery
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Dutch Republic
1632 โ€“ 1723 (90 years old)

Dutch draper and self-taught scientist acclaimed as the 'Father of Microbiology', who ground exquisite single-lens microscopes magnifying up to 500 times to discover the microscopic living world: bacteria, protozoa, sperm cells, and red blood cells.

Delft, Netherlands
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