AD 1501-1600 (16th Century AD)

Gregory XIII
 

1502 - 1585
Pope and calendar boy.

Ferdinand I
 

1503 - 1564
Holy Roman Emperor

Boleyn, Anne
 

1507 - 1536
Henry's second wife and Lizzy's mother.

Seymour, Jane
 

1509 - 1537
Henry's number three.

Calvin, John
 

1509 - 1564
French answer to Martin Luther.

Parr, Catherine
 

1512 - 1548
Henry's number six.

Anne of Cleves
 

1515 - 1557
Henry's number four.

Médicis, Catherine de
 

1519 - 1589
Queen of France.

Coligny, Gaspard II de
 

1519 - 1572
Lord de Châtillon.

Howard, Catherine
 

1521 - 1542
Henry's number five.

Philip II of Spain
 

1527 - 1598
King of Spain.

Louis I de Bourbon
 

1530, May 7 - 1569
First Prince of Condé.

Ivan the Terrible
 

1530, August 25 - 1584
Russian anger management.

Girolamo Mercuriale
 

1530, September 30 - 1606
Italian physician.

Erik XIV
 

1533 - 1577
Started the Seven Years' War of the North.

Elizabeth I
 

1533 - 1603
A wedding planner's nightmare.

Drake, Sir Francis
 

1540 - 1596
Spain's nightmare.

Mary Queen of Scots
 

1542 - 1587
Pretty but clueless.

Francis II
 

1544 - 1560
Tool of the de Guise family.

Godunov, Boris
 

1551 - 1605
Russian tsar.

Henry IV of France
 

1553 - 1610
Bourbon King of Navarre and France.

Shakespeare, William
 

1564 - 1616
Playwright.

Galilei, Galileo
 

1564 - 1642
Telescope.

Hudson, Henry
 

1565 - 1611
English navigator.

James I
 

1566 - 1625
King of Great Britain.

Urban VIII
 

1568 - 1644
Pope.

Fawkes, Guy
 

1570 - 1606
British Gunpowder.

Grotius, Hugo
 

1583 - 1645
Smart man of the law from Holland.

Richelieu
 

1585 - 1642
Cardinal.

Fyodor II
 

1589 - 1605
Russian tsar for not even three months.

Gustav II Adolf
 

1594 - 1632
Thirty Years' War.

Romanov, Michael
 

1596 - 1645
First Romanov tsar.

Pocahontas
 

1596 - 1617
Jamestown tourist.

Cromwell, Oliver
 

1599 - 1658
Signed Charles's execution papers.

Charles I
 

1600 - 1649
English king with Scottish accent.