Who Was Alive

Hernán Cortés

Spanish conquistador

Born 1485 · died 2 December 1547, aged 61 or 62

Who was alive at the same time as Hernán Cortés?

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Vasco da Gama
  4. Erasmus
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus
  8. Michelangelo
  9. Thomas More
  10. Ferdinand Magellan
  11. Raphael
  12. Martin Luther
  13. Hernán Cortés
  14. Mimar Sinan
  15. Jacques Cartier
  16. François Rabelais
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent
  18. Charles V
  19. Nostradamus
  20. John Calvin
  21. Michel de Montaigne
  22. Elizabeth I of England
  23. Akbar
  24. Tycho Brahe
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 Hernán Cortés was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 32 or 33, Michelangelo was 9 or 10, Martin Luther was 1 or 2, Christopher Columbus was 33 or 34 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 15 or 16.

When Hernán Cortés died, Michelangelo was 72, Elizabeth I of England was 14, Akbar was 5, Jacques Cartier was 55 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 53.

Born during Hernán Cortés’s lifetime: Elizabeth I of England, Akbar, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Michel de Montaigne, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: Francis Bacon was born 14 years after Hernán Cortés died, Giordano Bruno was born about a year after Hernán Cortés died, Lope de Vega was born 15 years after Hernán Cortés died and Mehmed II died 4 years before Hernán Cortés was born.

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All 57 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. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  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. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  25. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  26. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  27. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  28. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  30. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  31. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  32. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Babur 1483 – 1530
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  40. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  41. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  42. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  43. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  44. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  45. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  46. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  47. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  48. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  49. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  50. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  51. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  52. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  53. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  54. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  55. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  56. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  57. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541