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Pietro Metastasio
Attributed to Martin van Meytens / Attributed to Pompeo Batoni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet and librettist

Born 3 January 1698 · died 12 April 1782, aged 84
Also known as Metastasio, Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, Pedro Metastase

Who was alive at the same time as Pietro Metastasio?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  6. Pietro Metastasio, 1698 – 1782
  7. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  8. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  9. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  11. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  12. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  13. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  14. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  15. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  16. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  17. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  18. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  21. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  23. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855

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When Pietro Metastasio was born, Isaac Newton was 54, Johann Sebastian Bach was 12, Voltaire was 3, John Locke was 65 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 51.

When Pietro Metastasio died, Napoleon was 12, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 32, George Washington was 50, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 26 and Immanuel Kant was 57.

Born during Pietro Metastasio’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Lord Byron was born about 6 years after Pietro Metastasio died, Matsuo Bashō died about 4 years before Pietro Metastasio was born, Michael Faraday was born about 9 years after Pietro Metastasio died and Simón Bolívar was born about a year after Pietro Metastasio died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

337 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pietro Metastasio. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1740.

  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  26. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  27. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  28. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  29. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  30. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  31. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  32. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  33. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  34. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  35. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  36. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  37. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  38. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  39. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  40. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  41. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  42. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  43. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  44. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  45. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  46. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  47. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  48. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  49. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  50. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  51. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  52. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  53. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  54. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  55. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  56. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  57. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  58. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  59. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  60. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  61. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  62. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  63. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  64. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  65. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  66. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  67. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  68. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  69. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  70. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  71. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  72. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  73. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  74. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  75. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  76. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  77. George III 1738 – 1820
  78. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  79. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  80. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  81. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  82. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  83. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  84. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  85. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  86. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  87. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  88. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  89. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  90. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  91. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  92. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  93. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  94. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  95. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  96. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  97. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  98. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  99. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  100. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  101. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  102. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  103. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  104. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  105. William IV 1765 – 1837
  106. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  107. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  108. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  109. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  110. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  111. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  112. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  113. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  114. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  115. George IV 1762 – 1830
  116. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  117. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  118. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  119. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  120. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  121. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  122. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  123. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  124. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  125. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  126. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  127. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  128. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  129. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  130. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  131. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  132. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  133. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  134. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  135. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  136. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  137. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  138. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  139. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  140. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  141. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  142. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  143. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  144. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  145. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  146. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  147. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  148. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  149. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  150. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811