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Charles III of Spain
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Charles III of Spain

Monarch of Spain

Born 20 January 1716 · died 14 December 1788, aged 72
Also known as Charles VII of Naples, Charles V of Sicily, Carlos III

Who was alive at the same time as Charles III of Spain?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  5. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  6. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  7. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  9. Charles III of Spain, 1716 – 1788
  10. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  11. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  12. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  13. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  14. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  15. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  16. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  20. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  22. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  24. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

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When Charles III of Spain was born, Isaac Newton was 73, Johann Sebastian Bach was 30, Voltaire was 21, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 3 and Benjamin Franklin was 10.

When Charles III of Spain died, Napoleon was 19, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 39, George Washington was 56, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 32 and Immanuel Kant was 64.

Born during Charles III of Spain’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Victor Hugo was born about 14 years after Charles III of Spain died, Alexander Pushkin was born about 11 years after Charles III of Spain died, John Locke died about 12 years before Charles III of Spain was born and Louis XIV died about a year before Charles III of Spain was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

337 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charles III of Spain. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1752.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  25. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  26. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  27. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  28. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  29. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  30. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  31. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  32. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  33. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  34. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  35. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  36. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  37. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  38. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  39. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  40. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  41. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  42. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  43. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  44. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  45. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  46. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  47. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  48. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  49. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  50. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  51. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  52. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  53. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  54. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  55. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  56. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  57. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  58. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  59. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  60. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  61. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  62. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  63. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  64. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  65. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  66. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  67. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  68. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  69. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  70. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  71. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  72. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  73. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  74. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  75. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  76. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  77. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  78. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  79. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  80. George III 1738 – 1820
  81. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  82. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  83. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  84. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  85. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  86. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  87. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  88. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  89. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  90. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  91. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  92. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  93. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  94. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  95. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  96. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  97. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  98. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  99. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  100. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  101. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  102. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  103. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  104. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  105. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  106. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  107. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  108. William IV 1765 – 1837
  109. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  110. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  111. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  112. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  113. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  114. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  115. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  116. George IV 1762 – 1830
  117. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  118. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  119. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  120. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  121. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  122. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  123. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  124. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  125. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  126. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  127. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  128. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  129. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  130. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  131. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  132. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  133. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  134. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  135. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  136. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  137. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  138. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  139. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  140. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  141. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  142. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  143. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  144. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  145. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  146. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  147. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  148. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  149. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  150. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727