Francis II
1544 – 1560 · 16 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1559 – 1560 (Franks and France)
He became king at 15, but power lay with the Guise brothers, uncles of his wife Mary Stuart. The Huguenot Conspiracy of Amboise was crushed in his reign; he died at 16 of an ear infection.
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Portrait: Attributed to François Clouet · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 69 years older
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 11 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 3 years younger
- John Calvin — Protestant reformer, 35 years older
- Philip II of Spain — King of Spain, 17 years older
- Mary, Queen of Scots — Queen of Scotland, 2 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 14 years older
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 12 years older
Middle East
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 50 years older
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 20 years older
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 39 years older
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf — Ottoman astronomer and engineer, 18 years older
- Murad III — sultan who won the Caucasus from the Safavids, 2 years younger
Africa
- Ahmad al-Mansur — Sultan of Morocco, 5 years younger
Asia
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 2 years older
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 1 year older
- Oda Nobunaga — Japanese warlord, 10 years older
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi — unifier of Japan, 7 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki — last Ashikaga shogun, expelled by Nobunaga, 7 years older
- Yi Sun-sin — Korean admiral, 1 year younger
Americas
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 60 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 5 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — aged 1, Americas
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — aged 11, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — aged 12, Asia
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — aged 12, Asia