Huayna Capac
c. 1464 – 1527 · 63 years · Tomebamba · Americas
Under him the Inca Empire reached its greatest extent; his death from smallpox triggered a civil war.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 12 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 9 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 11 years younger
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 19 years younger
- Maximilian I — "the Last Knight", who raised the Habsburgs through shrewd marriages, 5 years older
- Henry VII — founder of the Tudor dynasty who ended the Wars of the Roses, 7 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 15 years younger
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 24 years older
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 9 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 32 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 6 years younger
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 30 years younger
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 41 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 17 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 21 years older
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi — Adal imam and general, 42 years younger
Asia
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 5 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 5 years younger
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 19 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 28 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 2 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshizumi — puppet shogun of the Hosokawa clan, 17 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 13 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 2 years younger
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 20 years younger
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 21 years younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 16 years younger
- Atahualpa — last Inca emperor, 38 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 14, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 24, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 28, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 28, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 30, Europe
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 34, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 37, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 44, Europe
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 47, Asia
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — aged 53, Europe
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — aged 55, Americas
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — aged 56, Middle East
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — aged 57, Americas
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — aged 62, Asia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — aged 62, Eastern Europe & Russia