Tokugawa Iemochi
1846 – 1866 · 20 years · Edo · Asia
Reign: 1858 – 1866 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
He became shogun in 1858 at 12. To unite court and shogunate he married Princess Kazu, sister of Emperor Kōmei, and in 1863 became the first shogun in 229 years to visit Kyoto; he died in Osaka during the second Chōshū expedition.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: Tokugawa Mochinaga · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 37 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 28 years older
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 27 years older
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 7 years younger
- Victor Hugo — novelist and poet, 44 years older
- Napoleon III — last French monarch, who surrendered to Prussia at Sedan, 38 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 25 years older
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 18 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 12 years older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 6 years older
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- Alexander III the Peacemaker — the "Peacemaker" emperor of the counter-reforms, 1 year older
Middle East
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 4 years older
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 23 years older
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 16 years older
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Africa
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 33 years older
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 2 years older
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- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 18 years older
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- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 68 years older
Asia
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- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 6 years younger
- Empress Dowager Cixi — Empress Dowager of China, 11 years older
- Nikolay Przhevalsky — explorer of Central Asia, 7 years older
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Americas
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 37 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 1 year younger
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- Benito Juárez — President of Mexico, 40 years older
- Ulysses S. Grant — 18th US president, commanding general of the Union Army, 24 years older
- Mark Twain — writer and humorist, 11 years older
Oceania
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 34 years older
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- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 8 years older
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 1 year younger
- Ned Kelly — bushranger and Australian folk hero, 8 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 0, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 0, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 1, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 2, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 2, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 5, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 7, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 13, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 15, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 15, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 17, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 18, Americas