Daniel of Moscow
1261 – 1303 · 42 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1263 – 1303 (Rus and Russia)
Youngest son of Alexander Nevsky, who received the small town of Moscow as his appanage. He annexed Kolomna and Pereslavl-Zalessky and founded the Danilov Monastery; the Russian Church canonised him.
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Portrait: collective of Titularnik · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
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Eastern Europe & Russia
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Middle East
Africa
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Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 7 years older
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 46 years older
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The world in their lifetime
- 1271 Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty — aged 10, Asia
- 1271–1295 Travels of Marco Polo — aged 10, Asia
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — aged 19, Oceania
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — aged 20, Asia
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 32, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 39, Europe