Tokugawa Ieshige
1712 – 1761 · 49 years · Edo · Asia
Reign: 1745 – 1760 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
Yoshimune's son, shogun 1745–1760. He had a severe speech impediment, and his orders were relayed by Ōoka Tadamitsu; real power lay with his father and then with his councillors.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 18th century
Portrait: Attributed to Kanō Terunobu · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 18 years older
- Johann Sebastian Bach — German composer and organist, 27 years older
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 69 years older
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 37 years younger
- Carl Linnaeus — Swedish naturalist, 5 years older
- Louis XV — king under whom France lost Canada, 2 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Mikhail Lomonosov — Russian polymath, 1 year older
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 17 years younger
- Peter the Great — first Emperor of Russia, 40 years older
- Leonhard Euler — Swiss mathematician, 5 years older
- Elizabeth — empress who founded Moscow University, 3 years older
- Peter III — emperor who freed the nobility from compulsory service, 16 years younger
Middle East
- Nader Shah — Shah of Iran and conqueror, 24 years older
- Ahmed III — sultan of the 'Tulip Era', 39 years older
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 9 years older
- Osman III — sultan who spent 50 years in the 'cage', 13 years older
- Mustafa III — sultan who lost the war to Catherine II, 5 years younger
- Mahmud I — sultan who regained Belgrade by the 1739 peace, 16 years older
Africa
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 67 years older
Asia
- Kangxi Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 58 years older
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 1 year older
- Tokugawa Yoshimune — reforming shogun who allowed Western books, 28 years older
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 39 years younger
- Cao Xueqin — Chinese novelist, 3 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieharu — shogun of the Tanuma era and the Tenmei famine, 25 years younger
Americas
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 6 years older
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 20 years younger
- Túpac Amaru II — leader of an Andean uprising, 26 years younger
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 31 years younger
- Toussaint Louverture — leader of the Haitian Revolution, 31 years younger
- Aleijadinho — Brazilian sculptor and architect, 18 years younger
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 16 years younger
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 13 years younger
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 26 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — aged 9, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1747 Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Afghan state — aged 35, Middle East
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake — aged 43, Europe
- 1756–1763 Seven Years' War — aged 44, Europe
- 1757 Battle of Plassey — aged 45, Asia
- c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — aged 48, Europe