Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
1486 – 1534 · 48 years · Nabadwip, Bengal · Asia
Preached love for Krishna through the communal chanting of his names, kirtan, open to people of every caste. He spent his last years in Puri. The Hare Krishna movement traces its teaching back to him.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 13 years older
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 11 years older
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 3 years older
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 34 years older
- Erasmus — Dutch humanist, 20 years older
- Francysk Skaryna — printer and humanist, 4 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 7 years older
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 46 years older
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 31 years older
Middle East
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 8 years younger
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 16 years older
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 19 years younger
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 38 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 39 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 43 years older
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi — Adal imam and general, 20 years younger
Asia
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 17 years older
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 3 years older
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 17 years older
- Wang Yangming — Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher, 14 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 20 years older
- Mirabai — mystic poet, 12 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 35 years older
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 2 years older
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 1 year older
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 6 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 20 years older
- Atahualpa — last Inca emperor, 16 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 2, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 6, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 6, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 8, Europe
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 12, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 15, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 22, Europe
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 25, Asia
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — aged 31, Europe
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — aged 33, Americas
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — aged 34, Middle East
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — aged 35, Americas
- 1526–1867 Atlantic slave trade — aged 40, Whole world
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — aged 40, Asia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — aged 40, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — aged 43, Africa
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — aged 46, Americas
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — aged 48, Europe