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Pope Stephen II
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Pope Stephen II

Served as Pope

Born c. AD 714 · died 26 April AD 757
Also known as Stephen II

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Stephen II?

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When Pope Stephen II died, Li Bai was 55, Du Fu was 44 or 45, Jabir ibn Hayyan was 35 or 36, Abu Hanifa was 57 and Pope Leo III was 6 or 7.

Born during Pope Stephen II’s lifetime: Charlemagne, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Pope Leo III, Pope Stephen III, Irene of Athens, Alcuin, Abd al-Rahman I and Roland.

Not quite contemporaries: Harun al-Rashid was born about 9 years after Pope Stephen II died, Al-Shafi'i was born about 10 years after Pope Stephen II died, Pope John VII died about 5 years before Pope Stephen II was born and Pope Sergius I died about 11 years before Pope Stephen II was born.

What happened in Pope Stephen II’s lifetime

Where Pope Stephen II’s contemporaries were born

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The 60 best-known contemporaries

60 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Stephen II. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 737.

  1. Li Bai AD 701 – AD 762
  2. Charlemagne c. AD 744 – AD 814
  3. Du Fu AD 712 – AD 770
  4. Jabir ibn Hayyan AD 721 – AD 815
  5. Abu Hanifa AD 699 – c. AD 768
  6. Bede c. AD 672 – AD 735
  7. Pope Gregory II AD 669 – AD 731
  8. Charles Martel AD 688 – AD 741
  9. Pope Leo III AD 750 – c. AD 816
  10. Pope Adrian I AD 700 – AD 795
  11. Pepin the Short c. AD 716 – AD 768
  12. Pope Paul I AD 700 – AD 767
  13. John of Damascus c. AD 675 – AD 749
  14. Pope Stephen III c. AD 720 – AD 772
  15. Pope Zachary AD 679 – AD 752
  16. Ja'far al-Sadiq c. AD 701 – c. AD 765
  17. Malik ibn Anas c. AD 711 – AD 795
  18. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz AD 681 – c. AD 720
  19. Leo III the Isaurian AD 675 – AD 741
  20. Irene of Athens c. AD 752 – AD 803
  21. Rabia Basri 710s – AD 801
  22. Alcuin c. AD 740 – AD 804
  23. Tariq ibn Ziyad AD 670 – AD 720
  24. Abd al-Rahman I AD 731 – AD 788
  25. Roland AD 737 – AD 778
  26. Padmasambhava AD 717 – AD 762
  27. Constantine V AD 718 – AD 775
  28. Nikephoros I c. AD 750 – AD 811
  29. Pelagius of Asturias c. AD 685 – AD 737
  30. Wang Wei AD 699 – c. AD 760
  31. Al-Mansur AD 713 – AD 775
  32. Carloman I AD 751 – AD 771
  33. Abu Muslim c. AD 719 – AD 755
  34. Paul the Deacon c. AD 720 – c. AD 799
  35. Leo IV the Khazar AD 750 – AD 780
  36. Saint Boniface c. AD 675 – AD 754
  37. Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik AD 675 – AD 717
  38. Al-Saffah AD 722 – AD 754
  39. Musa al-Kazim AD 745 – c. AD 799
  40. Krum AD 755 – AD 814
  41. Muhammad al-Baqir AD 677 – AD 733
  42. Marwan II AD 688 – AD 750
  43. Al-Walid II 700s – AD 744
  44. Ibn Ishaq AD 704 – AD 768
  45. Al-Mahdi AD 744 – AD 785
  46. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang c. AD 684 – c. AD 765
  47. Theuderic IV c. AD 713 – AD 737
  48. Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik AD 691 – AD 743
  49. Chilperic II c. AD 673 – AD 721
  50. Hasan al-Basri AD 642 – AD 728
  51. Yazid II AD 687 – AD 724
  52. Yazid III AD 701 – AD 744
  53. Desiderius c. AD 710 – c. AD 786
  54. Empress Genmei AD 661 – AD 721
  55. Liutprand, King of the Lombards c. 680s – AD 744
  56. Chlothar IV c. AD 685 – AD 719
  57. Shantideva c. AD 685 – c. AD 763
  58. Emperor Kanmu AD 737 – AD 806
  59. Hisham I of Córdoba AD 757 – AD 796
  60. Carloman c. AD 710 – AD 754