Richard III
1452 – 1485 · 33 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1483 – 1485 (England and Britain)
Brother of Edward IV who took the throne from his young nephew; the 'Princes in the Tower' vanished. He died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, the last English king killed in battle; his remains were found under a Leicester car park in 2012.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 15th century
Portrait: Barthel ii · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, born the same year
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 52 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 21 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 23 years younger
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 1 year older
- Louis XI — the "universal spider" who pieced France together, 29 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 12 years older
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 3 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 37 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 20 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 18 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 5 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 9 years older
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 16 years older
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 17 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 17 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshihisa — shogun whose birth set off the Ōnin War, 13 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 14 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 1 year older
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 34 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 14 years younger
- Huayna Capac — Sapa Inca, 12 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 50 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 1, Middle East
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 26, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 28, Eastern Europe & Russia