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Pedro I of Brazil
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Pedro I of Brazil

Emperor of Brazil

Born 12 October 1798 · died 24 September 1834, aged 35
Also known as Peter I of Brazil, Pedro IV, Pedro IV of Portugal

Who was alive at the same time as Pedro I of Brazil?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  7. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  8. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  9. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  10. Pedro I of Brazil, 1798 – 1834
  11. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  12. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  13. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  14. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  15. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  16. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  17. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  20. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Pedro I of Brazil was born, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 66, Immanuel Kant was 74 and Thomas Jefferson was 55.

When Pedro I of Brazil died, Karl Marx was 16, Abraham Lincoln was 25, Leo Tolstoy was 6, Charles Darwin was 25 and Victor Hugo was 32.

Born during Pedro I of Brazil’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 7 years before Pedro I of Brazil was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 10 years after Pedro I of Brazil died, Thomas Edison was born about 13 years after Pedro I of Brazil died and Mark Twain was born about a year after Pedro I of Brazil died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

507 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pedro I of Brazil. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1816.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  18. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  19. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  20. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  21. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  23. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  24. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  26. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  27. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  28. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  31. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  32. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  33. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  34. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  35. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  36. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  37. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  38. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  39. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  40. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  41. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  42. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  43. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  44. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  45. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  46. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  47. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  48. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  49. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  50. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  51. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  52. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  53. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  54. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  55. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  56. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  57. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  58. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  59. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  60. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  61. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  62. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  63. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  64. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  65. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  66. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  67. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  68. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  69. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  70. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  71. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  72. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  73. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  74. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  75. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  76. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  77. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  78. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  79. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  80. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  81. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  82. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  83. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  84. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  85. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  86. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  87. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  88. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  89. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  90. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  91. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  92. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  93. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  94. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  95. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  96. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  97. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  98. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  99. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  100. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  101. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  102. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  103. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  104. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  105. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  106. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  107. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  108. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  109. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  110. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  111. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  112. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  113. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  114. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  115. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  116. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  117. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  118. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  119. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  120. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  121. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  122. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  123. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  124. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  125. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  126. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  127. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  128. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  129. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  130. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  131. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  132. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  133. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  134. Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
  135. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  136. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  137. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  138. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  139. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  140. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  141. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  142. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  143. George III 1738 – 1820
  144. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  145. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  146. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  147. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  148. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  149. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  150. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895