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Pedro Álvares Cabral
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Pedro Álvares Cabral

Portuguese explorer

Born 1467 · died c. 1520
Also known as Pedro Alvares de Cabral, Pedro Alvares Cabral, Pedro Alvarez Cabral

Who was alive at the same time as Pedro Álvares Cabral?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  2. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  7. Pedro Álvares Cabral, 1467 – c. 1520
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  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 Pedro Álvares Cabral was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 14 or 15, Christopher Columbus was 15 or 16, Erasmus was about a year old, Mehmed II was 34 or 35 and Amerigo Vespucci was 12 or 13.

Born during Pedro Álvares Cabral’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Hernán Cortés.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 10 years after Pedro Álvares Cabral died, Michel de Montaigne was born about 10 years after Pedro Álvares Cabral died, Francis Drake was born about 15 years after Pedro Álvares Cabral died and Ivan the Terrible was born about 7 years after Pedro Álvares Cabral died.

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The 136 best-known contemporaries

136 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pedro Álvares Cabral. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1493.

  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. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  24. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  25. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  26. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  27. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  28. Babur 1483 – 1530
  29. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  30. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  31. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  32. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  33. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  34. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  35. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  36. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  37. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  38. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  39. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  40. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  41. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  42. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  43. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  44. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  45. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  46. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  47. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  48. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  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. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  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 Paul II 1417 – 1471
  71. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  72. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  73. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  74. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  75. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  76. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  77. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  78. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  79. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  80. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  81. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  82. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  83. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  84. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  85. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  86. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  87. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  88. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  89. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  90. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  91. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  92. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  93. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  94. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  95. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  96. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  97. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  98. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  99. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  100. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  101. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  102. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  103. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  104. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  105. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  106. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  107. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  108. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  109. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  110. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  111. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  112. James V 1512 – 1542
  113. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  114. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  115. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  116. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  117. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  118. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  119. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  120. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  121. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  122. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  123. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  124. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  125. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  126. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  127. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  128. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  129. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  130. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  131. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  132. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  133. James IV 1473 – 1513
  134. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  135. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  136. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535