Isabella I of Castile
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1451 – 1504 · 53 years · Valladolid · Europe
With her husband Ferdinand she united Spain, completed the Reconquista and sponsored Columbus's voyage.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 1 year younger
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 22 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 24 years younger
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 32 years younger
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 51 years older
- Henry VII — founder of the Tudor dynasty who ended the Wars of the Roses, 6 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 11 years older
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 28 years younger
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 4 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 36 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 19 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 19 years younger
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 43 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 4 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 8 years older
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 15 years older
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 18 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 18 years younger
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 32 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 15 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshihisa — shogun whose birth set off the Ōnin War, 14 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, born the same year
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 15 years younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 29 years younger
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 33 years older
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 33 years younger
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 34 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 2, Middle East
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 27, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 37, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 41, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 41, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 43, Europe
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 47, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 50, Middle East