Ashikaga Yoshiaki
1537 – 1597 · 60 years · Kyoto · Asia
Reign: 1568 – 1573 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
Yoshiteru's brother, put in power by Oda Nobunaga in 1568. Chafing at being a puppet, he organised daimyo coalitions against his patron and was expelled from Kyoto in 1573, the date usually taken as the end of the Muromachi shogunate.
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Portrait: 松平定信（編） · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 4 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 10 years younger
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 27 years younger
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 27 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 62 years older
- Philip II of Spain — King of Spain, 10 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 7 years older
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 5 years older
- False Dmitry I — pretender who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry, 44 years younger
- Boris Godunov — Tsar of Russia, 15 years younger
- Vasily Shuisky — boyar tsar of the Time of Troubles who died in Polish captivity, 15 years younger
- Feodor I — last Rurikid tsar, under whom the Moscow Patriarchate was founded, 20 years younger
Middle East
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 13 years older
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 43 years older
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 34 years younger
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 32 years older
- Murad III — sultan who won the Caucasus from the Safavids, 9 years younger
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf — Ottoman astronomer and engineer, 11 years older
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 46 years younger
- Ahmad al-Mansur — Sultan of Morocco, 12 years younger
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 19 years younger
Asia
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 5 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 6 years younger
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi — unifier of Japan, born the same year
- Yi Sun-sin — Korean admiral, 8 years younger
- Oda Nobunaga — Japanese warlord, 3 years older
- Matteo Ricci — Jesuit missionary in China, 15 years younger
Americas
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 53 years older
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 52 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 2 years younger
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 30 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — aged 5, Americas
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — aged 6, Europe
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — aged 8, Americas
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — aged 10, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — aged 18, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — aged 19, Asia
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — aged 19, Asia
- 1569 Union of Lublin — aged 32, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — aged 34, Europe
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — aged 35, Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — aged 45, Europe
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — aged 45, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — aged 51, Europe
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — aged 54, Africa
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — aged 55, Asia