Who Was Alive

Were Christopher Columbus and Huldrych Zwingli alive at the same time?

Yes. Christopher Columbus and Huldrych Zwingli were alive at the same time for 22 years, from 1484 to 1506.

Christopher Columbus was 32 or 33 when Huldrych Zwingli was born.

Huldrych Zwingli was 22 when Christopher Columbus died, aged 54 or 55.

Christopher Columbus

Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist

Born 1451 · died 20 May 1506, aged 54 or 55

Huldrych Zwingli

Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder

Born 1 January 1484 · died 11 October 1531, aged 47

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus
  5. Michelangelo
  6. Martin Luther
  7. Huldrych Zwingli
Christopher Columbus and Huldrych Zwingli in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.