Orhan
%2C%20Iskender-name%20by%20Ahmedi%2C%20late%2015th%20century%20(National%20Library%20of%20Russia%2C%20C133)%20Restoration.jpg?width=160 "Late 15th century artist · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons")
c. 1281 – 1362 · 81 years · Bursa · Middle East
Reign: 1324 – 1362 (Ottoman Empire)
Son of Osman I: took Bursa in 1326 and made it his capital, then captured Nicaea and Nicomedia, and in 1354 seized Gallipoli, the first Ottoman foothold in Europe.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 14th century
Portrait: Late 15th century artist · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
%2C_Iskender-name_by_Ahmedi%2C_late_15th_century_(National_Library_of_Russia%2C_C133)_Restoration.jpg){kind=link}
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 16 years older
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 31 years younger
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 35 years younger
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 13 years older
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 42 years older
- Rudolf I — first Habsburg king, who won Austria for his house, 63 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 7 years younger
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 33 years younger
- Dmitry Donskoy — Grand Prince of Moscow, 69 years younger
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, born the same year
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 35 years younger
- Ivan II the Fair — grand prince of Moscow, father of Dmitry Donskoy, 45 years younger
Middle East
Africa
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 23 years younger
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 1 year older
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 51 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 27 years older
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 55 years younger
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 66 years older
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 24 years younger
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 7 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 9 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — aged 0, Asia
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 12, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 19, Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — aged 28, Europe
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 34, Europe
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 43, Africa
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 44, Americas
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 46, Africa
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — aged 56, Europe
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — aged 56, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1347–1351 Black Death — aged 66, Europe