Editing List of historians (section)

===Early modern period===
''Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815''
*[[John Hayward (historian)|John Hayward]] (1564–1627)
*[[James Ussher]] (1581–1656), chronology of the history of the world
*[[Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft]] (1581–1647), Dutch Republic
*[[William Bradford (Plymouth governor)|William Bradford]] (1590–1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
*[[Mícheál Ó Cléirigh]] (c. 1590–1643), Irish historian
*[[Thomas Fuller]] (1608–1661), English historian and churchman
*[[Tadhg Óg Ó Cianáin]] (died c. 1614), Irish historian
*[[Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh]] (Peregrine O'Clery) (died c. 1662/1664), Irish historian
*[[Sir James Ware]] (1594–1666), [[Anglo-Irish]] historian and antiquarian
*[[Arthur Wilson (writer)|Arthur Wilson]] (1595–1652), 16th-century Britain
*[[Placido Puccinelli]] (1609–1685), Italian historian
*[[Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange]] (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
*[[Mary Bonaventure Browne]] (c. 1610 – c. 1670), [[Poor Clare]] and [[Ireland|Irish]] historian
*[[Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain]] ({{fl.|1627–1636}}), Irish historian
*[[Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh]] (1629–1716/1718), Irish historian
*[[Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont]] (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian
*[[Christoph Cellarius]] (1638–1707), German universal historian
*[[Constantin Cantacuzino (stolnic)|Constantin Catntacuzino]] (1639-1716), [[Wallachia|Wallachian]] Historian
*[[John Strype]] (1643–1737), English historian
*[[Thomas Rymer]] (c. 1643–1713), English historian and antiquary
*[[Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh]] (fl. 1643–1671), Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
*[[Geoffrey Keating]]/Seathrún Céitinn (died 1643), Irish historian
*[[Đorđe Branković (count)|Đorđe Branković]] (1645–1711), Serbian history
*[[Josiah Burchett]] (1666–1746), British naval historian and CEmiralty official
*[[Anton Maria Del Chiaro|Anton Mariah Del Chiaro]] (1669-aft.1727), the author of a book on the history of [[Wallachia]].
*[[Laurence Echard]] (c. 1670–1730), England
*[[Ludovico Antonio Muratori]] (1672–1750), Italy
*[[Manuel Teles da Silva, 3rd Marquis of Alegrete]] (1682–1736), Portuguese historian
*[[Matthias Bel]] (1684–1749), [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] pastor and [[polymath]] from [[Kingdom of Hungary (1538–1867)|Kingdom of Hungary]]<ref>Matthiaie Belii: De Vetere Litteratura Hunno-Scythica Exarcitatio. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ewJFAAAAYAAJ].</ref>
*[[Moses Williams (antiquarian)|Moses Williams]] (1685–1742), Welsh scholar and antiquarian
*[[Archibald Bower]] (1686–1766), historian of Rome
*[[Vasily Tatishchev]] (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia
*[[Giambattista Vico]] (1688–1744), Italian historian, first modern philosopher of history
*[[Voltaire]] (1694–1778), writer on Europe and France 
*[[Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim]] (1694–1755), Lutheran historian
*[[Charlotta Frölich]] (1698–1770), Swedish historian
*[[Francis Blomefield]] (1705–1752), historian of Norfolk, England
*[[David Hume]] (1711–1776), ''History of England''
*[[Thomas Hutchinson (governor)|Thomas Hutchinson]] (1711–1780), colonial Massachusetts
*[[Francisco Jose Freire]] (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
*[[William Robertson (historian)|William Robertson]] (1721–1793), Scottish historian
*[[György Pray]] (1723–1801), Hungarian abbot and historian
*[[Zaharije Orfelin]] (1726–1785), Austrian Serb historian
*[[Johann Christoph Gatterer]] (1727–1799), German historian
*[[Edward Hasted]] (1732–1812), English antiquarian and [[Kent]] historian
*[[Mikhail Shcherbatov]] (1733–1790), Russian historian
*[[August Ludwig von Schlözer]] (1735–1809), German historian
*[[John Barrow (historian)|John Barrow]] (fl. 1735–1774), English naval historian and geographer 
*[[Edward Gibbon]] (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium
*[[Alexander Hewat]] (or Hewatt) (1739–1824), colonial Carolina and Georgia
*[[Benjamin Incledon]] (1730–1796), English antiquary and school historian
*[[Philip Yorke (antiquary)|Philip Yorke]] (1743–1804), Welsh historian and politician
*[[Johann Gottfried Herder]] (1744–1803), philosophy of the history of mankind
*[[Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra]] (1745–1813), Spanish historian
*[[David Ramsay (congressman)|David Ramsay]] (1749–1815), American Revolution; South Carolina
*[[Johannes von Müller]] (1752–1809), Switzerland
*[[Pauline de Lézardière]] (1754–1835), French law historian
*[[Anton Tomaz Linhart]] (1756–1795), known for Slovenian history
*[[Friedrich Schiller]] (1759–1805), German historian
*[[Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin]] (1766–1826), Russian historian, Russian Empire
*[[György Fejér]] (1766–1851) Hungarian author<ref>''Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus no civilis''</ref> 
*[[Francesco Maria Appendini]] (1768–1837), Italian historian, Republic of Ragusa
*[[Ernst Moritz Arndt]] (1769–1860), German historian