Vlad the Impaler
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c. 1431 – 1477 · 46 years · Târgoviște · Europe
Ruled Wallachia three times and fought the Ottomans; his impalements earned him the name Tepes, ‘the Impaler’. His father's byname Dracul (‘dragon’) gave Bram Stoker's Count Dracula his name four centuries later.
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Contemporaries around the world
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- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 21 years younger
- Louis XI — the "universal spider" who pieced France together, 8 years older
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 28 years older
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 20 years younger
- Richard III — last Plantagenet king, killed at Bosworth, 21 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 9 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 16 years older
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Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 1 year younger
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 27 years older
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 16 years younger
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 12 years younger
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 5 years younger
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, 34 years older
- Ulugh Beg — ruler and astronomer, 37 years older
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Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 20 years younger
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 13 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 35 years younger
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The world in their lifetime
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- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — aged 7, Americas
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — aged 14, Oceania
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — aged 15, Asia
- 1449 Tumu Crisis — aged 18, Asia
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — aged 19, Europe
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — aged 19, Americas
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — aged 19, Americas
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 22, Middle East
- 1453 Battle of Castillon — aged 22, Europe
- 1455–1487 Wars of the Roses — aged 24, Europe
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — aged 36, Asia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — aged 38, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1469 Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella — aged 38, Europe