Frederick III
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1415 – 1493 · 78 years · Wiener Neustadt · Europe
Reign: 1440 – 1493 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
The longest-reigning emperor. In 1452 he became the last emperor crowned in Rome; he lived through the loss of Vienna to Matthias Corvinus, and by marrying his son Maximilian to Mary of Burgundy laid the foundations of Habsburg world power.
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Portrait: Attributed to Hans Burgkmair the Elder · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 15 years older
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 37 years younger
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 58 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 60 years younger
- Joan of Arc — heroine of the Hundred Years' War, 3 years older
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 68 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 25 years younger
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 64 years younger
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 55 years older
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, born the same year
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 40 years younger
- Vasily I — grand prince who annexed Nizhny Novgorod, 44 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 17 years younger
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 11 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 55 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 32 years younger
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 28 years younger
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 21 years younger
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, 18 years older
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 54 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 54 years younger
- Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 44 years older
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 68 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 36 years younger
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 3 years younger
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 51 years younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 65 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 13 years older
- Huayna Capac — Sapa Inca, 49 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — aged 14, Europe
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — aged 23, Americas
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — aged 30, Oceania
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — aged 31, Asia
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — aged 35, Europe
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — aged 35, Americas
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — aged 35, Americas
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 38, Middle East
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 63, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 65, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 73, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 77, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 77, Europe