Aztec Empire
1428–1521
Mesoamerican alliance ruled from Tenochtitlan, conquered by Spain.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- 1428–1521
- Place
- Mexico
Who was alive during Aztec Empire
- Tomás de Torquemada 1420–1498, inquisitor
- Vlad the Impaler c. 1428–c. 1477, ruler
- Mehmed II 1432–1481, sultan
- Donato Bramante 1444–1514, architect
- Sandro Botticelli c. 1445–1510, painter
- Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450–1516, painter
- Bartolomeu Dias c. 1450–1500, explorer
- John Cabot c. 1450–c. 1500, explorer
- Christopher Columbus c. 1451–1506, explorer
- Isabella I of Castile 1451–1504, queen
- Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519, polymath
- Amerigo Vespucci 1454–1512, explorer
- Jakob Fugger 1459–1525, banker
- Vasco da Gama c. 1460–1524, explorer
- Piri Reis c. 1465–1553, admiral and cartographer
- Erasmus 1466–1536, humanist
- Moctezuma II c. 1466–1520, emperor
- Pedro Álvares Cabral c. 1467–c. 1520, explorer
- Guru Nanak 1469–1539, religious leader
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527, political philosopher
- Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528, artist
- Wang Yangming 1472–1529, philosopher
- Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543, astronomer
- Juan Ponce de León 1474–1521, explorer