Ashikaga Yoshimochi
1386 – 1428 · 42 years · Kyoto · Asia
Reign: 1408 – 1423 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
Shogun from 1394, ruling in his own right after his father's death in 1408. He rejected the demeaning 'King of Japan' title and cut off trade with the Ming in 1411; Korea raided Tsushima during his rule (1419).
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Portrait: Attributed to Tosa Yukihide · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 14 years younger
- Joan of Arc — heroine of the Hundred Years' War, 26 years younger
- Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 18 years older
- Henry V — victor of Agincourt who became heir to the French crown, born the same year
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 17 years younger
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Eastern Europe & Russia
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Middle East
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Africa
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Asia
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Americas
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The world in their lifetime
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — aged 6, Asia
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — aged 14, Asia
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — aged 19, Asia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — aged 24, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — aged 25, Eastern Europe & Russia