Who Was Alive

Galba

Sixth Roman Emperor (68–69)

Born 24 December 3 BC · died 15 January AD 69, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as Galba?

  1. Strabo
  2. Augustus
  3. Titus Livius
  4. Ovid
  5. Tiberius
  6. Claudius
  7. Galba
  8. Saint Peter
  9. Paul the Apostle
  10. Vespasian
  11. Mark the Evangelist
  12. Linus
  13. Caligula
  14. Pliny the Elder
  15. Anacletus
  16. Josephus
  17. Nero
  18. Titus
  19. Plutarch
  20. Epictetus
  21. Domitian
  22. Tacitus
  23. Trajan
  24. Pliny the Younger
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When Galba was born, Augustus was 60, Ovid was 40, Titus Livius was 55 or 56, Tiberius was 39 and Claudius was 7.

When Galba died, Trajan was 15, Vespasian was 59, Titus was 29, Domitian was 17 and Linus was 58 or 59.

Born during Galba’s lifetime: Paul the Apostle, Plutarch, Saint Peter, Tacitus, Nero, Caligula, Pliny the Elder and Epictetus.

Not quite contemporaries: Horace died 5 years before Galba was born, Hadrian was born 7 years after Galba died and Vitruvius died 10 years before Galba was born.

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All 24 contemporaries we track

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – AD 64–67
  4. Plutarch AD 40–50 – c. AD 120
  5. Saint Peter BC – AD 64–68
  6. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  7. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  8. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  9. Titus Livius BC – AD 17
  10. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  11. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  12. Epictetus c. AD 50 – AD 125–138
  13. Strabo c. 63 BC – AD 21–24
  14. Trajan AD 53 – AD 115–119
  15. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  16. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  17. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  18. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – AD 112–114
  19. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  20. Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  21. Mark the Evangelist AD 9–20 – AD 68
  22. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  23. Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  24. Martial AD 38–41 – AD 104