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Catherine of Aragon
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Catherine of Aragon

Spanish diplomat

Born 16 December 1485 · died 7 January 1536, aged 50
Also known as Catalina of Castile, Katherine of Aragon, Catalina of Aragon

Who was alive at the same time as Catherine of Aragon?

  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. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Catherine of Aragon, 1485 – 1536
  15. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  16. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  17. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  18. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  21. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  22. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  23. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  24. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603

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When Catherine of Aragon was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 33, Michelangelo was 10, Martin Luther was 2, Christopher Columbus was 33 or 34 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 16.

When Catherine of Aragon died, Michelangelo was 60, Martin Luther was 52, Nicolaus Copernicus was 62, Elizabeth I was 2 and Hernán Cortés was 50 or 51.

Born during Catherine of Aragon’s lifetime: Elizabeth I, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Michel de Montaigne, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin, François Rabelais and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born about 9 years after Catherine of Aragon died, Akbar was born about 6 years after Catherine of Aragon died, Giordano Bruno was born about 12 years after Catherine of Aragon died and Tycho Brahe was born about 10 years after Catherine of Aragon died.

What happened in Catherine of Aragon’s lifetime

Where Catherine of Aragon’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

151 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Catherine of Aragon. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1511.

  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. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  21. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  24. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  27. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  28. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  29. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  30. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  31. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  32. Babur 1483 – 1530
  33. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  34. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  35. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  36. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  37. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  38. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  39. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  40. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  41. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  42. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  43. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  44. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  45. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  46. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  47. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  48. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  49. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  50. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  51. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  52. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  53. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  54. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  55. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  56. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  57. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  58. Jami 1414 – 1492
  59. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  60. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  61. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  62. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  63. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  64. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  65. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  66. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  67. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  68. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  69. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  70. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  71. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  72. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  73. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  74. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  75. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  76. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  77. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  78. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  79. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  80. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  81. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  82. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  83. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  84. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  85. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  86. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  87. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  88. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  89. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  90. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  91. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  92. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  93. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  94. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  95. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  96. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  97. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  98. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  99. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  100. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  101. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  102. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  103. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  104. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  105. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  106. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  107. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  108. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  109. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  110. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  111. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  112. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  113. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  114. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  115. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  116. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  117. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  118. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  119. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  120. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  121. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  122. James V 1512 – 1542
  123. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  124. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  125. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  126. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  127. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  128. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  129. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  130. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  131. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  132. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  133. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  134. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  135. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  136. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  137. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  138. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  139. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  140. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  141. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  142. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  143. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  144. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  145. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  146. James IV 1473 – 1513
  147. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  148. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  149. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  150. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596