Ahmad al-Mansur
1549 – 1603 · 54 years · Marrakesh · Africa
Saadi sultan who beat the Portuguese at the Battle of the Three Kings, conquered the Songhai Empire and corresponded with Elizabeth I.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 16 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 2 years older
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 15 years younger
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 15 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 74 years older
- Rudolf II — patron emperor who gathered Kepler, Brahe and Arcimboldo in Prague, 3 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 19 years older
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 17 years older
- False Dmitry I — pretender who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry, 32 years younger
- Boris Godunov — Tsar of Russia, 3 years younger
- Vasily Shuisky — boyar tsar of the Time of Troubles who died in Polish captivity, 3 years younger
- Feodor I — last Rurikid tsar, under whom the Moscow Patriarchate was founded, 8 years younger
Middle East
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 22 years younger
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 25 years older
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 55 years older
- Murad III — sultan who won the Caucasus from the Safavids, 3 years older
- Mehmed III — sultan who executed 19 brothers and won at Keresztes, 17 years younger
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf — Ottoman astronomer and engineer, 23 years older
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 34 years younger
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 7 years younger
Asia
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 7 years older
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 6 years older
- Matteo Ricci — Jesuit missionary in China, 3 years younger
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi — unifier of Japan, 12 years older
- Yi Sun-sin — Korean admiral, 4 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki — last Ashikaga shogun, expelled by Nobunaga, 12 years older
Americas
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 65 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 10 years older
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 18 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — aged 6, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — aged 7, Asia
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — aged 7, Asia
- 1569 Union of Lublin — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — aged 22, Europe
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — aged 23, Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — aged 33, Europe
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — aged 33, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — aged 39, Europe
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — aged 42, Africa
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — aged 43, Asia
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — aged 49, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — aged 49, Europe
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — aged 51, Asia
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — aged 51, Americas
- 1600 East India Company founded — aged 51, Europe