Who Was Alive

Charles I of England

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 to 1649

Born 19 November 1600 (Julian calendar) · died 30 January 1649 (Julian calendar), aged 48

Who was alive at the same time as Charles I of England?

  1. Elizabeth I of England
  2. Akbar
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. Lope de Vega
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. William Shakespeare
  8. Johannes Kepler
  9. Peter Paul Rubens
  10. Thomas Hobbes
  11. René Descartes
  12. Diego Velázquez
  13. Charles I of England
  14. Rembrandt
  15. John Milton
  16. Jean de La Fontaine
  17. Molière
  18. Blaise Pascal
  19. John Locke
  20. Benedictus de Spinoza
  21. Louis XIV of France
  22. Isaac Newton
  23. Matsuo Bashō
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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When Charles I of England was born, William Shakespeare was 36, Galileo Galilei was 36, René Descartes was 4, Francis Bacon was 39 and Elizabeth I of England was 67.

When Charles I of England died, Isaac Newton was 6, René Descartes was 52, Molière was 27, John Locke was 16 and Rembrandt was 42.

Born during Charles I of England’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal and Louis XIV of France.

Not quite contemporaries: Giordano Bruno died months before Charles I of England was born, Daniel Defoe was born 10 years after Charles I of England died, Michel de Montaigne died 8 years before Charles I of England was born and Mimar Sinan died 12 years before Charles I of England was born.

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All 54 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  16. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  28. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  29. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  33. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  34. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  35. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  36. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  37. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  38. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  39. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  40. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  41. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  42. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  43. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  44. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  45. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  46. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  47. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  48. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  49. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  50. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  51. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  52. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  53. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  54. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644