Ashikaga Yoshiharu
1511 – 1550 · 39 years · Kyoto · Asia
Reign: 1521 – 1546 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
He became shogun in 1521 at the age of ten. Caught up in the feuds of the Hosokawa and Miyoshi, he repeatedly fled Kyoto for Ōmi under Rokkaku protection; in 1546 he passed the office to his son and died in exile.
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The world in their lifetime
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- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — aged 10, Americas
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — aged 15, Asia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
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- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — aged 21, Americas
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — aged 23, Europe
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — aged 31, Americas
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — aged 32, Europe
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — aged 34, Americas
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — aged 36, Eastern Europe & Russia