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Dongmyeong of Goguryeo
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Dongmyeong of Goguryeo

Monarch

Born 58 BC · died 19 BC, aged 38 or 39
Also known as King Dongmyeong of Goguryeo, Go Jumong, Jumong

Who was alive at the same time as Dongmyeong of Goguryeo?

  1. Tigranes the Great, 140–BC
  2. Marcus Terentius Varro, 116–BC
  3. Marcus Licinius Crassus, 115–53 BC
  4. Cicero, 106–43 BC
  5. Pompey, 106–48 BC
  6. Julius Caesar, 100–44 BC
  7. Lucretius, BC–55 BC
  8. Diodorus Siculus, c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  9. Marcus Junius Brutus, c. 85 – 42 BC
  10. Catullus, c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  11. Sallust, 86–35 BC
  12. Mark Antony, BC–BC
  13. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  14. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  15. Cleopatra, c. 69 – 30 BC
  16. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  17. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  18. Horace, 65–8 BC
  19. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  20. Livy, BC – AD 17
  21. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo, BC–BC
  22. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  23. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  24. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37

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When Dongmyeong of Goguryeo was born, Julius Caesar was 41 or 42, Virgil was 11 or 12, Augustus was 4 or 5, Cicero was 48 or 49 and Horace was 6 or 7.

When Dongmyeong of Goguryeo died, Augustus was 43 or 44, Ovid was 23 or 24, Horace was 45 or 46, Tiberius was 22 or 23 and Nero Claudius Drusus was 18 or 19.

Born during Dongmyeong of Goguryeo’s lifetime: Ovid, Tiberius, Propertius, Caesarion, Seneca the Elder, Wang Mang, Nero Claudius Drusus and Juba II.

Not quite contemporaries: Claudius was born about 9 years after Dongmyeong of Goguryeo died, Spartacus died about 13 years before Dongmyeong of Goguryeo was born, Philo was born about a year after Dongmyeong of Goguryeo died and Mithridates VI Eupator died about 5 years before Dongmyeong of Goguryeo was born.

What happened in Dongmyeong of Goguryeo’s lifetime

Where Dongmyeong of Goguryeo’s contemporaries were born

Dongmyeong of Goguryeo is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (44 of 49 placed); tap one to open that person.
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The 48 best-known contemporaries

48 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Dongmyeong of Goguryeo. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 38 BC.

  1. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Cicero 106–43 BC
  5. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  6. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  7. Horace 65–8 BC
  8. Livy BC – AD 17
  9. Lucretius BC–55 BC
  10. Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  11. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  12. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  13. Pompey 106–48 BC
  14. Mark Antony BC–BC
  15. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  16. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  17. Sallust 86–35 BC
  18. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  19. Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85 – 42 BC
  20. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  21. Marcus Licinius Crassus 115–53 BC
  22. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  23. Tigranes the Great 140–BC
  24. Propertius c. 47 – BC
  25. Vercingetorix c. 80 – BC
  26. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  27. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  28. Cato the Younger BC–BC
  29. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  30. Caesarion 47–30 BC
  31. Posidonius 135–BC
  32. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  33. Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator BC–47 BC
  34. Livia BC – AD 29
  35. Ptolemy XII Auletes 117–BC
  36. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  37. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  38. Nero Claudius Drusus 38–9 BC
  39. Gaius Cassius Longinus c. 82 – BC
  40. Juba II BC – AD 23
  41. Cleopatra Selene II 40–BC
  42. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  43. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  44. Gaius Caesar BC – AD 4
  45. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  46. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  47. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  48. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14