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Charles IX of France
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Charles IX of France

King of France

Born 27 June 1550 · died 30 May 1574, aged 23
Also known as Charles IX, Charles IX King of France

Who was alive at the same time as Charles IX of France?

  1. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  2. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  3. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  4. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  5. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  6. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  7. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  8. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  9. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  10. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  11. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  12. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  14. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  15. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  16. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  17. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  18. Charles IX of France, 1550 – 1574
  19. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  20. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  21. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  22. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  23. Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610
  24. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630

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When Charles IX of France was born, Michelangelo was 75, Elizabeth I was 16, Akbar was 7, Jacques Cartier was 58 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 55.

When Charles IX of France died, William Shakespeare was 10, Galileo Galilei was 10, Elizabeth I was 40, Francis Bacon was 13 and Johannes Kepler was 2.

Born during Charles IX of France’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Lope de Vega, Caravaggio, Henry IV of France and Christopher Marlowe.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died about 4 years before Charles IX of France was born, Nicolaus Copernicus died about 7 years before Charles IX of France was born, Peter Paul Rubens was born about 3 years after Charles IX of France died and Hernán Cortés died about 3 years before Charles IX of France was born.

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The 124 best-known contemporaries

124 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charles IX of France. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1562.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  8. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  9. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  11. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  12. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  13. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  14. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  15. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  16. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  17. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  18. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  19. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  20. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  21. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  22. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  23. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  24. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  25. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  26. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  27. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  28. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  29. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  30. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  31. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  32. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  33. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  34. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  35. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  36. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  37. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  38. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  39. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  40. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  41. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  42. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  43. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  44. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  45. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  46. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  47. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  48. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  49. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  50. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  51. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  52. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  53. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  54. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  55. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  56. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  57. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  58. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  59. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  60. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  61. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  62. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  63. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  64. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  65. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  66. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  67. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  68. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  69. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  70. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  71. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  72. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  73. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  74. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  75. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  76. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  77. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  78. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  79. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  80. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  81. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  82. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  83. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  84. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  85. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  86. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  87. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  88. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  89. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  90. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  91. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  92. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  93. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  94. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  95. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  96. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  97. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  98. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  99. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  100. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  101. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  102. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  103. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  104. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  105. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  106. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  107. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  108. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  109. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  110. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  111. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  112. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  113. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  114. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  115. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  116. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  117. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  118. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  119. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  120. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  121. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  122. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  123. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  124. Philip Sidney 1554 – 1586