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Manuel I of Portugal
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Manuel I of Portugal

Monarch of Portugal

Born 31 May 1469 · died 13 December 1521, aged 52
Also known as Manuel I king of Portugal, Emanuel I of Portugal

Who was alive at the same time as Manuel I of Portugal?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  8. Manuel I of Portugal, 1469 – 1521
  9. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  11. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  12. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  13. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  14. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  15. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  16. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  17. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  18. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Manuel I of Portugal was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 17, Christopher Columbus was 17 or 18, Niccolò Machiavelli was under a year old, Erasmus was 2 and Mehmed II was 37.

When Manuel I of Portugal died, Michelangelo was 46, Martin Luther was 38, Niccolò Machiavelli was 52, Nicolaus Copernicus was 48 and Albrecht Dürer was 50.

Born during Manuel I of Portugal’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Hernán Cortés and Jacques Cartier.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 12 years after Manuel I of Portugal died, Johannes Gutenberg died months before Manuel I of Portugal was born, Michel de Montaigne was born about 12 years after Manuel I of Portugal died and Ivan the Terrible was born about 9 years after Manuel I of Portugal died.

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The 140 best-known contemporaries

140 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Manuel I of Portugal. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1495.

  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. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  27. Babur 1483 – 1530
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  31. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  32. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  33. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  34. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  35. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  36. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  37. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  38. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  39. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  40. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  41. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  42. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  43. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  44. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  45. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  46. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  47. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  48. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  49. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  50. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  51. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  52. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  53. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  54. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  55. Jami 1414 – 1492
  56. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  57. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  58. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  59. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  60. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  61. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  62. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  63. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  64. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  65. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  66. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  67. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  68. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  69. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  70. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  71. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  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. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  81. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  82. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  83. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  84. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  85. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  86. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  87. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  88. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  89. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  90. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  91. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  92. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  93. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  94. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  95. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  96. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  97. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  98. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  99. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  100. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  101. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  102. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  103. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  104. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  105. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  106. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  107. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  108. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  109. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  110. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  111. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  112. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  113. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  114. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  115. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  116. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  117. James V 1512 – 1542
  118. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  119. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  120. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  121. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  122. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  123. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  124. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  125. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  126. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  127. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  128. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  129. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  130. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  131. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  132. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  133. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  134. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  135. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  136. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  137. James IV 1473 – 1513
  138. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  139. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  140. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535