Who Was Alive
Ban Zhao
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Ban Zhao

Historian and philosopher

Born AD 45 · died AD 116, aged 70 or 71
Also known as Huiji, Gifted One Ban Zhao

Who was alive at the same time as Ban Zhao?

  1. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  2. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  3. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  4. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  5. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  6. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  7. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  8. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  9. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  10. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  11. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  12. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  13. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  14. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  15. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  16. Ban Zhao, AD 45 – AD 116
  17. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  18. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  19. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  20. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  21. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  22. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  23. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  24. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Ban Zhao was born, Nero was 7 or 8, Vespasian was 35 or 36, Claudius was 53 or 54, Titus was 5 or 6 and Galba was 46 or 47.

When Ban Zhao died, Hadrian was 39 or 40, Antoninus Pius was 29 or 30 and Aśvaghoṣa was 35 or 36.

Born during Ban Zhao’s lifetime: Tacitus, Ptolemy, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Pliny the Younger, Domitian and Antoninus Pius.

Not quite contemporaries: Marcus Aurelius was born about 5 years after Ban Zhao died, Caligula died about 4 years before Ban Zhao was born, Tiberius died about 8 years before Ban Zhao was born and Lucian was born about a year after Ban Zhao died.

What happened in Ban Zhao’s lifetime

Where Ban Zhao’s contemporaries were born

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The 68 best-known contemporaries

68 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ban Zhao. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 81.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  4. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  5. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  6. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  9. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  10. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  11. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  12. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  13. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  14. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  15. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  16. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  17. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  18. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  19. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  20. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  21. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  22. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  23. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  24. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  25. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  26. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  27. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  28. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  29. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  30. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  31. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  32. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  33. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  34. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  35. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  36. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  37. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  38. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  39. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  40. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  41. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  42. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  43. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  44. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  45. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  46. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  47. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  48. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  49. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  50. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  51. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  52. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  53. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  54. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  55. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  56. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  57. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  58. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  59. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  60. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  61. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  62. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  63. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  64. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  65. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  66. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  67. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  68. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177