Edward IV
1442 – 1483 · 41 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1461 – 1483 (England and Britain)
After defeating the Lancastrians at Towton in 1461 he became the first Yorkist king; deposed in 1470, he returned and beat his enemies at Barnet and Tewkesbury. He was a patron of William Caxton, England's first printer.
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Portrait: Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 10 years younger
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 42 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 31 years younger
- Louis XI — the "universal spider" who pieced France together, 19 years older
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 9 years younger
- Richard III — last Plantagenet king, killed at Bosworth, 10 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 2 years older
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 13 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 27 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 10 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 28 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 5 years younger
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 1 year younger
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 6 years older
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 27 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 27 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshihisa — shogun whose birth set off the Ōnin War, 23 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 24 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 9 years younger
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 24 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 24 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 40 years older
- Huayna Capac — Sapa Inca, 22 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — aged 3, Oceania
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — aged 4, Asia
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — aged 8, Europe
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — aged 8, Americas
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — aged 8, Americas
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 11, Middle East
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 36, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 38, Eastern Europe & Russia