Charles VIII
1470 – 1498 · 28 years · Amboise · Europe
Reign: 1483 – 1498 (Franks and France)
In 1494–1495 he marched the length of Italy and took Naples but was forced to retreat. He died aged 27 after striking his head on a door lintel at the château of Amboise.
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Portrait: After Jean Perréal · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 18 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 3 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 5 years younger
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 13 years younger
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 19 years older
- Henry VII — founder of the Tudor dynasty who ended the Wars of the Roses, 13 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 30 years older
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 9 years younger
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 15 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 38 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, born the same year
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 23 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 27 years older
Asia
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 1 year older
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 1 year older
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 34 years older
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 13 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 4 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshihisa — shogun whose birth set off the Ōnin War, 5 years older
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 19 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 4 years older
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 10 years younger
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 14 years younger
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 15 years younger
- Huayna Capac — Sapa Inca, 6 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 8, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 10, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 18, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 22, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 22, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 24, Europe
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 28, Asia