Who Was Alive

Marco Polo

Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia

Born 15 September 1254 · died 8 January 1324, aged 69

Who was alive at the same time as Marco Polo?

  1. Albertus Magnus
  2. Rumi
  3. Saadi
  4. Louis IX of France
  5. Kublai Khan
  6. Roger Bacon
  7. Thomas Aquinas
  8. Marco Polo
  9. Osman I
  10. Dante Alighieri
  11. Giotto
  12. William of Ockham
  13. Ibn Battuta
  14. Petrarch
  15. Giovanni Boccaccio
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 Marco Polo was born, Thomas Aquinas was 28 or 29, Rumi was 46, Kublai Khan was 38 and Louis IX of France was 39 or 40.

When Marco Polo died, Ibn Battuta was 19, Petrarch was 19, Giovanni Boccaccio was 10 or 11 and Osman I was 65.

Born during Marco Polo’s lifetime: Dante Alighieri, Ibn Battuta, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Osman I, Giotto and William of Ockham.

Not quite contemporaries: Ibn Khaldun was born 8 years after Marco Polo died, Timur was born 12 years after Marco Polo died and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor died 4 years before Marco Polo was born.

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