Bayezid II
1447 – 1512 · 65 years · Istanbul · Middle East
Reign: 1481 – 1512 (Ottoman Empire)
Son of Mehmed II, he spent years countering the claims of his brother Cem; in 1492 he welcomed the Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain. He was deposed by his own son Selim.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 5 years younger
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 26 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 28 years younger
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 36 years younger
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 47 years older
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 4 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 7 years older
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 32 years younger
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 8 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 32 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 15 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 23 years younger
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 47 years younger
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 4 years older
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 11 years older
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 22 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 22 years younger
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 36 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 19 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshizumi — puppet shogun of the Hosokawa clan, 34 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 4 years younger
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 19 years younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 33 years younger
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 37 years younger
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 38 years younger
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 29 years older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — aged 3, Europe
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — aged 3, Americas
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — aged 3, Americas
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 6, Middle East
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 31, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 33, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 41, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 45, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 45, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 47, Europe
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 51, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 54, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 61, Europe
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 64, Asia