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Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
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Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Born 6 August 1697 · died 20 January 1745, aged 47
Also known as Carolus VII, Karl VII, Emperor of Germany Karl VI

Who was alive at the same time as Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  5. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  6. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  7. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  8. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  10. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  11. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  12. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697 – 1745
  13. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  14. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  15. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  16. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  18. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  19. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  20. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  21. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  22. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  23. James Watt, 1736 – 1819
  24. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826

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When Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Isaac Newton was 54, Johann Sebastian Bach was 12, Voltaire was 2, John Locke was 64 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 51.

When Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor died, George Washington was 12, Johann Sebastian Bach was 59, Voltaire was 50, Immanuel Kant was 20 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 32.

Born during Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor’s lifetime: George Washington, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about 4 years after Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 11 years after Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor died, Matsuo Bashō died about 3 years before Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor was born and Francisco Goya was born about a year after Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor died.

Where Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

190 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1721.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  8. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  9. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  10. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  11. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  17. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  18. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  22. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  25. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  26. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  27. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  28. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  29. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  30. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  31. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  32. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  33. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  34. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  35. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  36. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  37. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  38. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  39. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  41. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  42. George III 1738 – 1820
  43. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  44. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  45. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  46. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  47. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  48. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  49. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  50. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  51. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  52. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  53. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  54. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  55. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  56. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  57. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  58. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  59. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  60. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  61. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  62. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  63. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  64. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  65. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  66. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  67. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  68. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  69. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  70. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  71. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  72. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  73. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  74. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  75. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  76. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  77. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  78. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  79. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  80. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  81. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  82. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  83. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  84. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  85. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  86. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  87. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  88. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  89. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  90. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  91. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  92. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  93. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  94. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  95. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  96. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  97. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  98. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  99. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  100. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  101. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  102. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  103. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  104. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  105. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  106. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  107. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  108. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  109. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  110. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  111. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  112. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  113. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  114. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  115. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  116. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  117. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  118. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  119. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  120. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  121. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  122. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  123. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  124. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  125. Martha Washington 1731 – 1802
  126. Gavrila Derzhavin 1743 – 1816
  127. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  128. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  129. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  130. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  131. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  132. Marquis de Condorcet 1743 – 1794
  133. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  134. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  135. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  136. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  137. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  138. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  139. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  140. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  141. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  142. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  143. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  144. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  145. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  146. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  147. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  148. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  149. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  150. Leopold Mozart 1719 – 1787