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Nikephoros I
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Nikephoros I

Byzantine emperor

Born c. AD 750 · died 26 July AD 811

Who was alive at the same time as Nikephoros I?

  1. Abu Hanifa, AD 699 – c. AD 768
  2. Pope Adrian I, AD 700 – AD 795
  3. Pope Paul I, AD 700 – AD 767
  4. Li Bai, AD 701 – AD 762
  5. Du Fu, AD 712 – AD 770
  6. Pepin the Short, c. AD 716 – AD 768
  7. Pope Stephen III, c. AD 720 – AD 772
  8. Jabir ibn Hayyan, AD 721 – AD 815
  9. Charlemagne, c. AD 744 – AD 814
  10. Nikephoros I, c. AD 750 – AD 811
  11. Pope Leo III, AD 750 – c. AD 816
  12. Abu Nuwas, c. AD 759 – AD 814
  13. Harun al-Rashid, AD 766 – AD 809
  14. Al-Shafi'i, AD 767 – AD 820
  15. Pope Paschal I, c. AD 775 – AD 824
  16. Al-Khwarizmi, c. AD 780 – c. AD 850
  17. Louis the Pious, AD 778 – AD 840
  18. Ahmad ibn Hanbal, AD 780 – AD 855
  19. Adi Shankara, c. AD 788 – c. AD 821
  20. Pope Leo IV, c. AD 790 – AD 855
  21. Pope Adrian II, AD 792 – AD 872
  22. Pope Gregory IV, c. AD 795 – AD 844
  23. Al-Kindi, c. AD 801 – c. AD 872
  24. Muhammad al-Bukhari, AD 810 – AD 870

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When Nikephoros I died, Jabir ibn Hayyan was 89 or 90, Pope Leo III was 60 or 61, Louis the Pious was 32 or 33, Muhammad al-Bukhari was 1 and Al-Shafi'i was 43.

Born during Nikephoros I’s lifetime: Al-Khwarizmi, Abu Nuwas, Harun al-Rashid, Adi Shankara, Louis the Pious, Al-Kindi, Muhammad al-Bukhari and Pope Gregory IV.

Not quite contemporaries: Bede died about 13 years before Nikephoros I was born, Charles Martel died about 7 years before Nikephoros I was born, Charles the Bald was born about 12 years after Nikephoros I died and Pope John VIII was born about 7 years after Nikephoros I died.

What happened in Nikephoros I’s lifetime

Where Nikephoros I’s contemporaries were born

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The 80 best-known contemporaries

80 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nikephoros I. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 782.

  1. Li Bai AD 701 – AD 762
  2. Charlemagne c. AD 744 – AD 814
  3. Al-Khwarizmi c. AD 780 – c. AD 850
  4. Abu Nuwas c. AD 759 – AD 814
  5. Du Fu AD 712 – AD 770
  6. Jabir ibn Hayyan AD 721 – AD 815
  7. Harun al-Rashid AD 766 – AD 809
  8. Adi Shankara c. AD 788 – c. AD 821
  9. Abu Hanifa AD 699 – c. AD 768
  10. Pope Leo III AD 750 – c. AD 816
  11. Louis the Pious AD 778 – AD 840
  12. Al-Kindi c. AD 801 – c. AD 872
  13. Pope Adrian I AD 700 – AD 795
  14. Pepin the Short c. AD 716 – AD 768
  15. Muhammad al-Bukhari AD 810 – AD 870
  16. Pope Gregory IV c. AD 795 – AD 844
  17. Pope Paul I AD 700 – AD 767
  18. Al-Shafi'i AD 767 – AD 820
  19. Ahmad ibn Hanbal AD 780 – AD 855
  20. Pope Adrian II AD 792 – AD 872
  21. Pope Leo IV c. AD 790 – AD 855
  22. Pope Paschal I c. AD 775 – AD 824
  23. Pope Stephen III c. AD 720 – AD 772
  24. Pope Eugene II c. AD 780 – AD 827
  25. Pope Stephen II c. AD 714 – AD 757
  26. Ja'far al-Sadiq c. AD 701 – c. AD 765
  27. Pope Stephen IV c. AD 770 – AD 817
  28. Pope Sergius II c. AD 790 – AD 847
  29. Pope Valentine c. AD 780 – AD 827
  30. Malik ibn Anas c. AD 711 – AD 795
  31. Lothair I AD 795 – AD 855
  32. Irene of Athens c. AD 752 – AD 803
  33. Rabia Basri 710s – AD 801
  34. Alcuin c. AD 740 – AD 804
  35. Abd al-Rahman I AD 731 – AD 788
  36. John Scotus Eriugena 800s – AD 877
  37. Louis the German c. AD 806 – AD 876
  38. Roland AD 737 – AD 778
  39. Al-Ma'mun c. AD 786 – c. AD 833
  40. Padmasambhava AD 717 – AD 762
  41. Constantine V AD 718 – AD 775
  42. Bai Juyi AD 772 – AD 846
  43. Al-Jahiz AD 775 – c. AD 869
  44. Ecgberht, King of Wessex AD 771 – AD 839
  45. Han Yu AD 768 – AD 824
  46. Ali al-Rida AD 770 – AD 818
  47. Wang Wei AD 699 – c. AD 760
  48. Al-Mansur AD 713 – AD 775
  49. Carloman I AD 751 – AD 771
  50. Michael I Rangabe c. AD 770 – AD 844
  51. Leo V the Armenian AD 775 – AD 820
  52. Abu Muslim c. AD 719 – AD 755
  53. Paul the Deacon c. AD 720 – c. AD 799
  54. Leo IV the Khazar AD 750 – AD 780
  55. Constantine VI AD 771 – c. AD 798
  56. Saint Boniface c. AD 675 – AD 754
  57. Al-Saffah AD 722 – AD 754
  58. Michael II AD 770 – AD 829
  59. Staurakios AD 775 – AD 812
  60. Abd ar-Rahman II AD 792 – AD 852
  61. Musa al-Kazim AD 745 – c. AD 799
  62. Krum AD 755 – AD 814
  63. Einhard c. AD 774 – AD 840
  64. Kūkai AD 774 – AD 835
  65. Al-Mu'tasim AD 796 – AD 842
  66. Ibn Ishaq AD 704 – AD 768
  67. Al-Mahdi AD 744 – AD 785
  68. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang c. AD 684 – c. AD 765
  69. Theophanes the Confessor AD 759 – AD 817
  70. Rabanus Maurus c. AD 783 – AD 856
  71. Babak Khorramdin AD 798 – AD 838
  72. Desiderius c. AD 710 – c. AD 786
  73. Al-Hadi c. AD 763 – AD 786
  74. Pepin of Italy AD 777 – AD 810
  75. Al-Amin AD 787 – AD 813
  76. Shantideva c. AD 685 – c. AD 763
  77. Emperor Kanmu AD 737 – AD 806
  78. Hisham I of Córdoba AD 757 – AD 796
  79. Carloman c. AD 710 – AD 754
  80. Alfonso II of Asturias AD 759 – AD 842