Ashikaga Yoshiakira
1330 – 1367 · 37 years · Kyoto · Asia
Reign: 1358 – 1367 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
Takauji's son, shogun 1358–1367. He spent his rule fighting the Southern Court and rebel vassals, losing and retaking Kyoto several times, yet handed his son a stable shogunate.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 18 years older
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 14 years older
- Petrarch — humanist poet, 26 years older
- John II the Good — king captured by the English at Poitiers, 11 years older
- Charles V the Wise — king who regained most of what was lost in the Hundred Years’ War, 8 years younger
- Geoffrey Chaucer — poet, author of The Canterbury Tales, 13 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 16 years older
- Dmitry Donskoy — Grand Prince of Moscow, 20 years younger
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 42 years older
- Ivan II the Fair — grand prince of Moscow, father of Dmitry Donskoy, 4 years older
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 14 years older
Middle East
Africa
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 26 years older
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 2 years younger
Asia
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 6 years younger
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 25 years older
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 40 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — aged 7, Europe
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1347–1351 Black Death — aged 17, Europe