Jakob Fugger
1459 – 1525 · 66 years · Augsburg · Europe
Known as Jakob the Rich, he held a near-monopoly on Europe's copper and lent to the Habsburgs; his money bought Charles V's election as emperor in 1519. In Augsburg he built the Fuggerei, the world's oldest social housing still in use.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 7 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 14 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 16 years younger
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 24 years younger
- Maximilian I — "the Last Knight", who raised the Habsburgs through shrewd marriages, born the same year
- Erasmus — Dutch humanist, 7 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 19 years older
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 20 years younger
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 4 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 27 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 11 years younger
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 35 years younger
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 46 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 12 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 16 years older
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi — Adal imam and general, 47 years younger
Asia
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 10 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 10 years younger
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 24 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 23 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 7 years younger
- Wang Yangming — Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher, 13 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 8 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 7 years younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 21 years younger
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 25 years younger
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 26 years younger
- Atahualpa — last Inca emperor, 43 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — aged 8, Asia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — aged 10, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1469 Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella — aged 10, Europe
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 19, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1478 Spanish Inquisition established — aged 19, Europe
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 21, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 29, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 33, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 33, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 35, Europe
- 1497 John Cabot reaches North America — aged 38, Americas
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 39, Asia
- 1500–1785 Muhammad Shaybani takes Samarkand — aged 41, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 42, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 49, Europe
- 1510 Portugal takes Goa — aged 51, Asia
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 52, Asia
- 1514 Capture of Smolensk — aged 55, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — aged 58, Europe
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — aged 60, Americas
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — aged 61, Middle East
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — aged 62, Americas
- 1524–1525 German Peasants' War — aged 65, Europe