Beaver Wars 1609–1701

Iroquois, Kingdom of England, Dutch Republic ⚔ Algonquian peoples, Wyandot people, Susquehannock, Erie people, Neutral Nation, Petun, Odawa, Ojibwe

Who lived through the Beaver Wars

Well-known people alive during 1609–1701:

• Isaac Newton (1643–1727) — English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) — Italian polymath (1564–1642)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) — German composer (1685–1750)
• René Descartes (1596–1650) — French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
• Molière (1622–1673) — French playwright and actor (1622–1673)
• John Locke (1632–1704) — English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
• Rembrandt (1606–1669) — Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) — German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
• Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) — Japanese poet (1644–1694)
• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) — French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626) — English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
• Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) — King of France and of Navarre from 1643 to 1715 (1638-1715)
• Johannes Kepler (1572–1630) — German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
• Peter the Great (1672–1725) — Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
• Benedictus de Spinoza (1632–1677) — Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) — Flemish painter (1577–1640)
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) — Italian composer and violinist (1678-1741)
• Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) — Spanish painter (1599-1660)
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) — Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
• Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) — English philosopher (1588–1679)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
• Montesquieu (1689–1755) — French philosopher (1689–1755)
• John Milton (1608–1674) — English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
• Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) — French poet, fabulist and writer (1621–1695)
• Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) — English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)

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