Who Was Alive

Anne Boleyn

Second wife of Henry VIII of England

Born 5 May 1501 · died 19 May 1536, aged 35

Who was alive at the same time as Anne Boleyn?

  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. Henry VIII of England
  16. Jacques Cartier
  17. François Rabelais
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent
  19. Charles V
  20. Anne Boleyn
  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 Anne Boleyn was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 49, Michelangelo was 26, Martin Luther was 17, Christopher Columbus was 49 or 50 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 32.

When Anne Boleyn died, Michelangelo was 61, Martin Luther was 52, Nicolaus Copernicus was 63, Elizabeth I of England was 2 and Hernán Cortés was 50 or 51.

Born during Anne Boleyn’s lifetime: Elizabeth I of England, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Nostradamus, Ivan the Terrible, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Luís de Camões and Philip II of Spain.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 9 years after Anne Boleyn died, Akbar was born 6 years after Anne Boleyn died, Giordano Bruno was born 12 years after Anne Boleyn died and Tycho Brahe was born 10 years after Anne Boleyn died.

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