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Peter II of Russia
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Peter II of Russia

Emperor of all the Russias

Born 12 October 1715 (Julian calendar) · died 19 January 1730 (Julian calendar), aged 14
Also known as Peter II Alexeyevich, Pedro II Alexéievich

Who was alive at the same time as Peter II of Russia?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  3. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  4. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  5. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  6. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  7. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  9. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  10. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  11. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  12. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  13. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  14. Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784
  15. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  16. Frederick the Great, 1712 – 1786
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  18. Denis Diderot, 1713 – 1784
  19. Peter II of Russia, 1715 – 1730
  20. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  21. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  22. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  23. Edmund Burke, 1729 – 1797
  24. Catherine the Great, 1729 – 1796

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When Peter II of Russia was born, Isaac Newton was 72, Johann Sebastian Bach was 30, Voltaire was 20, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 3 and Benjamin Franklin was 9.

When Peter II of Russia died, Johann Sebastian Bach was 44, Voltaire was 35, Immanuel Kant was 5, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 17 and Adam Smith was 6.

Born during Peter II of Russia’s lifetime: Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, James Cook, Catherine the Great, Edmund Burke, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Maria Theresa.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington was born about 2 years after Peter II of Russia died, Thomas Jefferson was born about 13 years after Peter II of Russia died, John Locke died about 11 years before Peter II of Russia was born and John Adams was born about 5 years after Peter II of Russia died.

Where Peter II of Russia’s contemporaries were born

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The 124 best-known contemporaries

124 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Peter II of Russia. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1723.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  6. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  11. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  14. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  15. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  16. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  17. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  18. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  19. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  20. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  21. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  22. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  23. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  24. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  25. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  26. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  27. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  28. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  29. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  30. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  31. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  32. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  33. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  34. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  35. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  36. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  37. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  38. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  39. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  40. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  41. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  42. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  43. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  44. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  45. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  46. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  47. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  48. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  49. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  50. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  51. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  52. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  53. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  54. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  55. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  56. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  57. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  58. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  59. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  60. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  61. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  62. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  63. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  64. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  65. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  66. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  67. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  68. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  69. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  70. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  71. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  72. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  73. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  74. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  75. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  76. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  77. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788
  78. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  79. Abdul Hamid I 1725 – 1789
  80. Thomas Gainsborough 1727 – 1788
  81. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  82. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  83. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  84. Joshua Reynolds 1723 – 1792
  85. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  86. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  87. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  88. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  89. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille 1713 – 1762
  90. Mustafa III 1717 – 1774
  91. Madame de Pompadour 1721 – 1764
  92. Horace Walpole 1717 – 1797
  93. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  94. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  95. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  96. Leopold Mozart 1719 – 1787
  97. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  98. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  99. Samuel Adams 1722 – 1803
  100. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 1724 – 1803
  101. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  102. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  103. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  104. Qianlong Emperor 1711 – 1799
  105. Peter III of Portugal 1717 – 1786
  106. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  107. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  108. Émilie du Châtelet 1706 – 1749
  109. Ferdinand VI 1713 – 1759
  110. James Hutton 1726 – 1797
  111. Joseph Black 1728 – 1799
  112. Moses Mendelssohn 1729 – 1786
  113. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  114. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  115. Pietro Metastasio 1698 – 1782
  116. Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709 – 1751
  117. Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717 – 1768
  118. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  119. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  120. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  121. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740
  122. Louis I of Spain 1707 – 1724
  123. François Boucher 1703 – 1770
  124. Johann Heinrich Lambert 1728 – 1777