Who Was Alive

Mary I

Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558

Born 18 February 1516 · died 17 November 1558, aged 42

Who was alive at the same time as Mary I?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci
  2. Vasco da Gama
  3. Erasmus
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli
  5. Albrecht Dürer
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus
  7. Michelangelo
  8. Thomas More
  9. Ferdinand Magellan
  10. Raphael
  11. Martin Luther
  12. Hernán Cortés
  13. Mimar Sinan
  14. Jacques Cartier
  15. François Rabelais
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent
  17. Charles V
  18. John Calvin
  19. Mary I
  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 Mary I was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 63, Michelangelo was 40, Martin Luther was 32, Niccolò Machiavelli was 46 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 43.

When Mary I died, Michelangelo was 83, Elizabeth I of England was 25, Akbar was 16, Suleiman the Magnificent was 64 and Giordano Bruno was 10.

Born during Mary I’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I of England, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, Tycho Brahe, Francis Drake and Ivan the Terrible.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born 6 years after Mary I died, Galileo Galilei was born 6 years after Mary I died, Christopher Columbus died 10 years before Mary I was born and Francis Bacon was born 3 years after Mary I died.

Compare

All 53 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. 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. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  22. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  23. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  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. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  32. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Babur 1483 – 1530
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  40. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  41. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  42. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  43. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  44. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  45. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  46. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  47. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  48. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  49. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  50. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  51. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  52. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  53. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541