Who Was Alive

Francisco Pizarro

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire

Born c. 1478 · died 26 June 1541

Who was alive at the same time as Francisco Pizarro?

  1. Mehmed II
  2. Christopher Columbus
  3. Leonardo da Vinci
  4. Vasco da Gama
  5. Erasmus
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli
  7. Albrecht Dürer
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus
  9. Michelangelo
  10. Thomas More
  11. Francisco Pizarro
  12. Ferdinand Magellan
  13. Raphael
  14. Martin Luther
  15. Hernán Cortés
  16. Mimar Sinan
  17. Jacques Cartier
  18. François Rabelais
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent
  20. Charles V
  21. Nostradamus
  22. John Calvin
  23. Michel de Montaigne
  24. Elizabeth I of England
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Francisco Pizarro died, Michelangelo was 66, Martin Luther was 57, Nicolaus Copernicus was 68, Elizabeth I of England was 7 and Hernán Cortés was 55 or 56.

Born during Francisco Pizarro’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Elizabeth I of England, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Michel de Montaigne and Mimar Sinan.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 4 years after Francisco Pizarro died, Johannes Gutenberg died 7 years before Francisco Pizarro was born, Akbar was born about a year after Francisco Pizarro died and Giordano Bruno was born 7 years after Francisco Pizarro died.

Compare

All 52 contemporaries we track

  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. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 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 1500 – 1558
  22. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  28. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  29. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  30. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  31. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  32. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  33. Babur 1483 – 1530
  34. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  35. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  36. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  37. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  38. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  39. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  40. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  41. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  42. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  43. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  44. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  45. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  46. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  47. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  48. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  49. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  50. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  51. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  52. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516