Ashikaga Yoshinori
1394 – 1441 · 47 years · Kyoto · Asia
Reign: 1429 – 1441 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
A former monk picked in 1428 by drawing lots among Yoshimochi's brothers. He ruled harshly, crushed the rebel Kamakura governor Ashikaga Mochiuji in 1439, and was killed at a banquet by Akamatsu Mitsusuke in 1441 (the Kakitsu Incident).
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 6 years younger
- Joan of Arc — heroine of the Hundred Years' War, 18 years younger
- Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 26 years older
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 9 years younger
- Henry V — victor of Agincourt who became heir to the French crown, 8 years older
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Eastern Europe & Russia
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Middle East
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 10 years younger
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Africa
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Asia
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Americas
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 24 years younger
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The world in their lifetime
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — aged 6, Asia
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — aged 11, Asia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — aged 17, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — aged 35, Europe
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — aged 44, Americas