Who Was Alive

Maria Theresa of Austria

Ruler of the Habsburg Dominions

Born 13 May 1717 · died 29 November 1780, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Maria Theresa of Austria?

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Peter the Great
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. Voltaire
  5. Benjamin Franklin
  6. Leonhard Euler
  7. Carl Linnaeus
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  9. Maria Theresa of Austria
  10. Adam Smith
  11. Immanuel Kant
  12. James Cook
  13. George Washington
  14. John Adams
  15. Thomas Jefferson
  16. Francisco Goya
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  19. Friedrich Schiller
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven
  21. Napoleon
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  23. Jane Austen
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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When Maria Theresa of Austria was born, Isaac Newton was 74, Johann Sebastian Bach was 32, Voltaire was 22, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 4 and Benjamin Franklin was 11.

When Maria Theresa of Austria died, Napoleon was 11, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 31, George Washington was 48, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 24 and Immanuel Kant was 56.

Born during Maria Theresa of Austria’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Lord Byron was born 8 years after Maria Theresa of Austria died, John Locke died 13 years before Maria Theresa of Austria was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about a year before Maria Theresa of Austria was born and Louis XIV of France died 2 years before Maria Theresa of Austria was born.

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All 119 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  27. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  28. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  29. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  30. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  31. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  32. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  33. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  34. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  35. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  36. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  37. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  38. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  39. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  40. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  41. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  42. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  43. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  44. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  45. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  46. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  47. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  48. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  49. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  50. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  51. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  52. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  53. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  54. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  55. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  56. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  57. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  58. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  59. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  60. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  61. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  62. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  63. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  64. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  65. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  66. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  67. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  68. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  69. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  70. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  71. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  72. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  73. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  74. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  75. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  76. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  77. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  78. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  79. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  80. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  81. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  82. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  83. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  84. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  85. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  86. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  87. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  88. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  89. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  90. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  91. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  92. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  93. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  94. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  95. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  96. William IV 1765 – 1837
  97. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  98. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  99. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  100. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  101. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  102. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  103. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  104. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  105. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  106. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  107. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  108. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  109. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  110. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  111. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  112. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  113. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  114. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  115. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  116. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  117. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  118. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  119. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817