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Charles IV of Spain
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Charles IV of Spain

Monarch of Spain

Born 11 November 1748 · died 20 January 1819, aged 70
Also known as Charles IV

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

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  7. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  8. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  9. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  10. Charles IV of Spain, 1748 – 1819
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  13. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  14. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  15. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  16. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  17. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  18. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  19. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  20. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  21. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  22. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  23. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  24. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883

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When Charles IV of Spain was born, George Washington was 16, Johann Sebastian Bach was 63, Voltaire was 53, Immanuel Kant was 24 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 36.

When Charles IV of Spain died, Karl Marx was under a year old, Abraham Lincoln was 9, Napoleon was 49, Charles Darwin was 9 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 69.

Born during Charles IV of Spain’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Hugo.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about 9 years after Charles IV of Spain died, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born about 2 years after Charles IV of Spain died, Louis Pasteur was born about 3 years after Charles IV of Spain died and Friedrich Engels was born about a year after Charles IV of Spain died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

484 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charles IV of Spain. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1784.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  34. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  35. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  36. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  44. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  45. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  46. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  47. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  48. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  49. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  50. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  51. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  52. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  53. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  54. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  55. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  56. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  57. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  58. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  59. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  60. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  61. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  62. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  63. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  64. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  65. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  66. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  67. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  68. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  69. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  70. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  71. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  72. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  73. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  74. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  75. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  76. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  77. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  78. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  79. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  80. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  81. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  82. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  83. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  84. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  85. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  86. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  87. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  88. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  89. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  90. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  91. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  92. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  93. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  94. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  95. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  96. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  97. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  98. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  99. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  100. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  101. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  102. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  103. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  104. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  105. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  106. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  107. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  108. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  109. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  110. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  111. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  112. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  113. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  114. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  115. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  116. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  117. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  118. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  119. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  120. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  121. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  122. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  123. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  124. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  125. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  126. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  127. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  128. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  129. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  130. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  131. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  132. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  133. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  134. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  135. George III 1738 – 1820
  136. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  137. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  138. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  139. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  140. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  141. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  142. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  143. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  144. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  145. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  146. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  147. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  148. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  149. Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881
  150. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794