Who Was Alive

Ferdinand II of Aragon

King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, and Valencia

Born 10 March 1452 · died 23 January 1516, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Ferdinand II of Aragon?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg
  2. Mehmed II
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Ferdinand II of Aragon
  5. Leonardo da Vinci
  6. Vasco da Gama
  7. Erasmus
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli
  9. Albrecht Dürer
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus
  11. Michelangelo
  12. Thomas More
  13. Ferdinand Magellan
  14. Raphael
  15. Martin Luther
  16. Hernán Cortés
  17. Mimar Sinan
  18. Henry VIII of England
  19. Jacques Cartier
  20. François Rabelais
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent
  22. Charles V
  23. Nostradamus
  24. John Calvin
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 Ferdinand II of Aragon was born, Christopher Columbus was about a year old, Mehmed II was 19, Isabella I of Castile was under a year old, François Villon was 20 or 21 and Julius II was 8.

When Ferdinand II of Aragon died, Leonardo da Vinci was 63, Michelangelo was 40, Martin Luther was 32, Niccolò Machiavelli was 46 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 42.

Born during Ferdinand II of Aragon’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael and Albrecht Dürer.

Not quite contemporaries: Ivan the Terrible was born 14 years after Ferdinand II of Aragon died, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born 9 years after Ferdinand II of Aragon died, Luís de Camões was born 8 years after Ferdinand II of Aragon died and Philip II of Spain was born 11 years after Ferdinand II of Aragon died.

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All 48 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. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 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 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII of England 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. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  29. Babur 1483 – 1530
  30. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  31. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  32. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  33. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  34. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  35. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  36. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  37. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  38. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  39. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  40. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  41. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  42. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  43. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  44. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  45. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  46. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  47. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  48. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541