Yongle Emperor (Zhu Di)
1360 CE–1424 CE · Beijing
The Yongle Emperor, born Zhu Di and enfeoffed as Prince of Yan, took the throne from his nephew in the Jingnan civil war, reigning from 1402 to 1424. He moved the primary capital to Beijing and built the Forbidden City as the imperial palace complex. He commissioned the vast Yongle Encyclopedia, sponsored the great maritime expeditions of the admiral Zheng He across the Indian Ocean, and led campaigns against the Mongols on the northern steppe.
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- Chimalpopoca· –1427 CE
- Taejong of Joseon· 1367 CE–1422 CE
- Manuel II Palaiologos· 1350 CE–1425 CE
- Khizr Khan· –1421 CE
- Mubarak Shah· –1434 CE
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu· 1358 CE–1408 CE
- Huitzilihuitl· –1417 CE
- Bayezid I· 1360 CE–1403 CE
- Barsbay· –1438 CE
- Mehmed I· 1386 CE–1421 CE
- Itzcoatl· –1440 CE
- Lê Lợi (Lê Thái Tổ)· 1385 CE–1433 CE
- Taejo of Joseon (Yi Seong-gye)· 1335 CE–1408 CE
- Timur (Tamerlane)· 1336 CE–1405 CE
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