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Bartolomeu Dias
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Bartolomeu Dias

Portuguese explorer

Born c. 1467 · died 29 May 1500
Also known as Barthélemy Diaz, Bartolomé Díaz, Bartolomeu Díaz

Who was alive at the same time as Bartolomeu Dias?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  6. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  7. Bartolomeu Dias, c. 1467 – 1500
  8. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  9. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  10. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  11. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  12. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  13. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  14. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  15. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  16. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  17. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  18. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  19. Titian, c. 1490 – 1576
  20. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  21. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  22. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  23. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  24. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558

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When Bartolomeu Dias died, Leonardo da Vinci was 48, Michelangelo was 25, Martin Luther was 16, Christopher Columbus was 48 or 49 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 31.

Born during Bartolomeu Dias’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Hernán Cortés and Jacques Cartier.

Not quite contemporaries: John Calvin was born about 9 years after Bartolomeu Dias died, Nostradamus was born about 3 years after Bartolomeu Dias died, Teresa of Ávila was born about 15 years after Bartolomeu Dias died and Anne Boleyn was born about a year after Bartolomeu Dias died.

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The 108 best-known contemporaries

108 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bartolomeu Dias. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1485.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  17. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  19. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  20. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  21. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  22. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  23. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  24. Babur 1483 – 1530
  25. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  26. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  27. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  28. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  29. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  30. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  31. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  32. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  33. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  34. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  35. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  36. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  37. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  38. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  39. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  40. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  41. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  42. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  43. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  44. Jami 1414 – 1492
  45. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  46. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  47. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  48. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  49. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  50. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  51. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  52. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  53. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  54. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  55. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  56. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  57. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  58. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  59. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  60. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  61. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  62. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  63. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  64. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  65. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  66. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  67. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  68. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  69. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  70. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  71. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  72. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  73. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  74. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  75. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  76. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  77. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  78. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  79. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  80. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  81. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  82. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  83. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  84. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  85. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  86. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  87. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  88. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  89. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  90. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  91. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  92. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  93. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  94. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  95. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  96. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  97. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  98. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  99. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  100. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  101. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  102. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  103. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  104. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  105. James IV 1473 – 1513
  106. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  107. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  108. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535