Who Was Alive

Charles V

Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556

Born 24 February 1500 · died 21 September 1558, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Charles V?

  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. John Calvin
  20. Michel de Montaigne
  21. Elizabeth I of England
  22. Akbar
  23. Miguel de Cervantes
  24. Giordano Bruno
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 Charles V was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 47, Michelangelo was 24, Martin Luther was 16, Christopher Columbus was 48 or 49 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 30.

When Charles V died, Michelangelo was 83, Elizabeth I of England was 25, Akbar was 15, Suleiman the Magnificent was 63 and Giordano Bruno was 10.

Born during Charles V’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I of England, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Tycho Brahe and Nostradamus.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born 6 years after Charles V died, Galileo Galilei was born 6 years after Charles V died, Francis Bacon was born 3 years after Charles V died and Johannes Kepler was born 14 years after Charles V died.

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All 60 contemporaries we track

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  12. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  33. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  36. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  37. Babur 1483 – 1530
  38. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  39. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  40. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  41. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  42. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  44. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  45. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  46. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  47. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  48. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  49. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  50. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  51. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  52. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  53. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  54. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  55. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  56. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  57. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  58. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  59. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  60. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541