Lorenzo de' Medici
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1449 – 1492 · 43 years · Florence · Europe
De facto ruler of Florence, called the Magnificent, he patronised Botticelli and the young Michelangelo, whom he took into his household. In 1478 he survived the Pazzi conspiracy, in which his brother Giuliano was killed in the cathedral during Mass.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 3 years younger
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 49 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 24 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 26 years younger
- Pope Alexander VI — Borgia pope, 18 years older
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 2 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 9 years older
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 30 years younger
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 6 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 34 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 17 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 21 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 2 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 6 years older
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 13 years older
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 20 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 20 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 17 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshihisa — shogun whose birth set off the Ōnin War, 16 years younger
- Wang Yangming — Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher, 23 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 2 years younger
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 17 years younger
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 31 years older
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 31 years younger
- Huayna Capac — Inca emperor, 15 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 47 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1449 Tumu Crisis — aged 0, Asia
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — aged 1, Europe
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — aged 1, Americas
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — aged 1, Americas
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 4, Middle East
- 1453 Battle of Castillon — aged 4, Europe
- 1455–1487 Wars of the Roses — aged 6, Europe
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — aged 18, Asia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1469 Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella — aged 20, Europe
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1478 Spanish Inquisition established — aged 29, Europe
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 31, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 39, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 43, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 43, Europe