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Bartolomé de las Casas
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Bartolomé de las Casas

Spanish friar and historian

Born 11 November 1484 · died 17 July 1566, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as Bartolomé de las Casas?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  11. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  12. Bartolomé de las Casas, 1484 – 1566
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  17. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  18. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  19. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  20. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  21. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  22. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  23. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  24. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616

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When Bartolomé de las Casas was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 32, Michelangelo was 9, Martin Luther was 1, Christopher Columbus was 32 or 33 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 15.

When Bartolomé de las Casas died, William Shakespeare was 2, Galileo Galilei was 2, Elizabeth I was 32, Francis Bacon was 5 and Akbar was 23.

Born during Bartolomé de las Casas’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Hernán Cortés, Akbar and Jacques Cartier.

Not quite contemporaries: Johannes Kepler was born about 6 years after Bartolomé de las Casas died, Peter Paul Rubens was born about 11 years after Bartolomé de las Casas died, Mehmed II died about 3 years before Bartolomé de las Casas was born and Caravaggio was born about 5 years after Bartolomé de las Casas died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

197 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bartolomé de las Casas. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1525.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  5. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  10. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  12. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  15. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  16. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  17. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  18. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  19. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  20. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  21. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  22. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  23. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  24. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  25. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  26. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  27. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  28. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  29. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  30. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  31. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  32. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  33. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  34. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  35. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  36. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  37. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  38. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Babur 1483 – 1530
  43. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  44. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  45. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  46. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  47. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  48. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  49. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  50. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  51. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  52. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  53. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  54. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  57. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  58. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  59. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  60. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  61. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  62. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  63. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  64. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  65. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  66. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  67. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  68. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  69. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  70. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  71. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  72. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  73. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  74. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  75. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  76. Jami 1414 – 1492
  77. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  78. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  79. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  80. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  81. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  82. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  83. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  84. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  85. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  86. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  87. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  88. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  89. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  90. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  91. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  92. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  93. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  94. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  95. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  96. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  97. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  98. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  99. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  100. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  101. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  102. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  103. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  104. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  105. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  106. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  107. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  108. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  109. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  110. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  111. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  112. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  113. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  114. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  115. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  116. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  117. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  118. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  119. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  120. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  121. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  122. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  123. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  124. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  125. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  126. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  127. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  128. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  129. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  130. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  131. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  132. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  133. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  134. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  135. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  136. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  137. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  138. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  139. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  140. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  141. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  142. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  143. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  144. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  145. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  146. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  147. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  148. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  149. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  150. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498