Selim I the Grim
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c. 1470 – 1520 · 50 years · Istanbul · Middle East
Reign: 1512 – 1520 (Ottoman Empire)
He deposed his father, defeated Shah Ismail at Chaldiran in 1514 and in 1516–1517 destroyed the Mamluk Sultanate, annexing Syria, Egypt and the Hejaz; in eight years he nearly doubled the empire.
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Africa
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Asia
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Americas
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The world in their lifetime
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- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 10, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 18, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 22, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 22, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 24, Europe
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 28, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 31, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 38, Europe
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 41, Asia
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — aged 47, Europe
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — aged 49, Americas
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — aged 50, Middle East