Anne Boleyn
c. 1501 – 1536 · 35 years · London · Europe
To marry her, Henry VIII broke with the Pope and England got a church of its own. Three years later, having borne no son, Anne was accused of treason and beheaded at the Tower; her daughter became Queen Elizabeth I.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 28 years older
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 26 years older
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 18 years older
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 49 years older
- Erasmus — Dutch humanist, 35 years older
- Francysk Skaryna — printer and humanist, 11 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 22 years older
Middle East
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 7 years older
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 4 years younger
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 31 years older
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 23 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 54 years older
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf — Ottoman astronomer and engineer, 25 years younger
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 58 years older
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi — Adal imam and general, 5 years younger
Asia
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 32 years older
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 18 years older
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 32 years older
- Mirabai — mystic poet, 3 years older
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu — Bengali saint, founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, 15 years older
- Wang Yangming — Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher, 29 years older
Americas
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 17 years older
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 16 years older
- Atahualpa — last Inca emperor, 1 year younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 21 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 35 years older
- Huayna Capac — Inca emperor, 37 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 0, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 7, Europe
- 1510 Portugal takes Goa — aged 9, Asia
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 10, Asia
- 1514 Capture of Smolensk — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — aged 16, Europe
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — aged 18, Americas
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — aged 19, Middle East
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — aged 20, Americas
- 1524–1525 German Peasants' War — aged 23, Europe
- 1526–1867 Atlantic slave trade — aged 25, Whole world
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — aged 25, Asia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — aged 25, Europe
- 1527 Sack of Rome — aged 26, Europe
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — aged 28, Africa
- 1529 Siege of Vienna — aged 28, Europe
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — aged 31, Americas
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — aged 33, Europe