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Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Born 8 December 1708 · died 18 August 1765, aged 56
Also known as Franz Stephan von Lothringen, empereur germanique François I, Emperor of Germany Franz I

Who was alive at the same time as Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor?

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  5. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  8. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  9. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  10. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  11. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1708 – 1765
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  13. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  14. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  15. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  16. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  17. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  18. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  19. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  21. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  23. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  24. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849

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When Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Isaac Newton was 65, Johann Sebastian Bach was 23, Voltaire was 14, Benjamin Franklin was 2 and Carl Linnaeus was 1.

When Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 15, George Washington was 33, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 9, Voltaire was 70 and Immanuel Kant was 41.

Born during Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about 4 years after Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born about 3 years after Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor died, John Locke died about 4 years before Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor was born and Jane Austen was born about 10 years after Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

238 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1737.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  16. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  17. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  18. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  19. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  22. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  23. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  26. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  27. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  28. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  29. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  30. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  31. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  32. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  33. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  34. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  35. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  36. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  37. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  38. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  39. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  40. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  41. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  42. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  43. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  44. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  45. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  46. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  47. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  48. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  49. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  50. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  51. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  52. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  53. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  54. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  55. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  56. George III 1738 – 1820
  57. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  58. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  59. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  60. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  61. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  62. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  63. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  64. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  65. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  66. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  67. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  68. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  69. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  70. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  71. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  72. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  73. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  74. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  75. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  76. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  77. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  78. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  79. George IV 1762 – 1830
  80. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  81. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  82. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  83. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  84. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  85. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  86. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  87. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  88. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  89. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  90. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  91. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  92. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  93. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  94. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  95. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  96. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  97. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  98. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  99. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  100. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  101. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  102. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  103. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  104. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  105. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  106. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  107. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  108. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  109. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  110. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  111. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  112. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  113. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  114. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  115. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  116. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  117. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  118. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  119. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  120. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  121. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  122. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  123. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  124. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  125. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  126. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  127. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  128. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  129. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  130. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  131. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  132. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  133. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  134. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  135. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  136. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  137. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  138. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  139. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  140. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  141. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  142. Selim III 1761 – 1808
  143. Joséphine de Beauharnais 1763 – 1814
  144. Marquis de Lafayette 1757 – 1834
  145. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  146. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  147. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  148. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  149. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  150. Mikhail Kutuzov 1747 – 1813