Francisco Pizarro
1478 – 1541
Spanish

Adventurer and military commander. He ruthlessly conquered the Incas.

Contemporaries
1519–1589Catherine de' Medici
1432–1519Leonardo da Vinci
1484–1531Huldrych Zwingli
1420–1498Tomás de Torquemada
1539–1604Faustus Socinus
1525–1562Laelius Socinus
1452–1485Richard III
1527–1598Phillip II
1478–1535Sir Thomas More
1492–1549Margaret of Angouleme
1491–1556St. Ignatius of Loyola
1466–1536Desiderius Erasmus
1524–1583Thomas Erastus
1490–1546Sir Thomas Elyot
1540–1596Sir Francis Drake
1504–1575Heinrich Bullinger