Charles V
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1500 – 1558 · 58 years · Brussels · Europe
Reign: 1519 – 1556 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
Grandson of Maximilian I and Ferdinand of Aragon, he ruled Spain and its American colonies, the Netherlands and the empire. He outlawed Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1521, was the last emperor crowned by a pope (1530), and in 1556 abdicated and retired to the monastery of Yuste.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 25 years older
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 17 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 27 years older
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 33 years younger
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 48 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 47 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 30 years younger
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 21 years older
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 32 years younger
Middle East
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 6 years older
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 5 years younger
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 24 years younger
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 30 years older
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf — Ottoman astronomer and engineer, 26 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 53 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 57 years older
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi — Adal imam and general, 6 years younger
Asia
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 42 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 43 years younger
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 31 years older
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 17 years older
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 31 years older
- Oda Nobunaga — Japanese warlord, 34 years younger
Americas
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 16 years older
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 15 years older
- Atahualpa — last Inca emperor, 2 years younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 20 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 34 years older
- Huayna Capac — Sapa Inca, 36 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 1, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 8, Europe
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 11, Asia
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — aged 17, Europe
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — aged 19, Americas
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — aged 20, Middle East
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — aged 21, Americas
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — aged 26, Asia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — aged 26, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — aged 29, Africa
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — aged 32, Americas
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — aged 34, Europe
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — aged 42, Americas
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — aged 43, Europe
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — aged 45, Americas
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — aged 47, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — aged 55, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — aged 56, Asia
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — aged 56, Asia