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Nerva
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Nerva

Roman emperor

Born 8 November AD 30 · died 27 January AD 98, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Nerva?

  1. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  2. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  3. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  4. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  5. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  6. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  7. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  8. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  9. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  10. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  11. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  12. Nerva, AD 30 – AD 98
  13. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  14. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  15. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  16. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  17. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  18. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  19. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  20. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  21. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  22. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  23. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  24. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161

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When Nerva was born, Saint Peter was 29 or 30, Caligula was 18, Tiberius was 70, Vespasian was 20 and Claudius was 39.

When Nerva died, Trajan was 44, Hadrian was 22, Antoninus Pius was 11, Zhang Heng was 19 or 20 and Kanishka was 19 or 20.

Born during Nerva’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Titus and Pliny the Younger.

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid died about 13 years before Nerva was born, Livy died about 13 years before Nerva was born, Strabo died about 6 years before Nerva was born and Arminius died about 7 years before Nerva was born.

What happened in Nerva’s lifetime

Where Nerva’s contemporaries were born

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The 70 best-known contemporaries

70 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nerva. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 64.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  4. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  5. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  6. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  9. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  10. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  11. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  12. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  13. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  14. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  15. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  16. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  17. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  18. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  19. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  20. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  21. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  22. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  23. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  24. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  25. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  26. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  27. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  28. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  29. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  30. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  31. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  32. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  33. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  34. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  35. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  36. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  37. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  38. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  39. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  40. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  41. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  42. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  43. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  44. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  45. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  46. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  47. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  48. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  49. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  50. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  51. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  52. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  53. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  54. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  55. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  56. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  57. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  58. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  59. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  60. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  61. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  62. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  63. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  64. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  65. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  66. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  67. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  68. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  69. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  70. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120