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Qianlong Emperor
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Qianlong Emperor

Emperor of China

Born 25 September 1711 · died 7 February 1799, aged 87
Also known as Chien-lung Emperor, Hung-li, Hongli

Who was alive at the same time as Qianlong Emperor?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  5. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  6. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  7. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  8. Qianlong Emperor, 1711 – 1799
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  11. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  12. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  13. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  14. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  15. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  16. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  19. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  20. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  22. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  24. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824

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When Qianlong Emperor was born, Isaac Newton was 68, Johann Sebastian Bach was 26, Voltaire was 16, Benjamin Franklin was 5 and Carl Linnaeus was 4.

When Qianlong Emperor died, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 66, Immanuel Kant was 74 and Thomas Jefferson was 55.

Born during Qianlong Emperor’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: Abraham Lincoln was born about 10 years after Qianlong Emperor died, Charles Darwin was born about 10 years after Qianlong Emperor died, Victor Hugo was born about 3 years after Qianlong Emperor died and Charles Dickens was born about 13 years after Qianlong Emperor died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

398 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Qianlong Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1755.

  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. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  14. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  15. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  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. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  28. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  29. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  30. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  31. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  32. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  33. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  34. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  35. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  36. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  37. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  38. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  39. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  40. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  41. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  42. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  43. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  44. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  45. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  46. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  47. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  48. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  49. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  50. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  51. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  52. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  53. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  54. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  55. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  56. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  57. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  58. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  59. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  60. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  61. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  62. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  63. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  64. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  65. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  66. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  67. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  68. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  69. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  70. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  71. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  72. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  73. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  74. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  75. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  76. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  77. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  78. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  79. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  80. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  81. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  82. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  83. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  84. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  85. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  86. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  87. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  88. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  89. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  90. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  91. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  92. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  93. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  94. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  95. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  96. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  97. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  98. George III 1738 – 1820
  99. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  100. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  101. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  102. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  103. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  104. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  105. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  106. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  107. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  108. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  109. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  110. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  111. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  112. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  113. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  114. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  115. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  116. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  117. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  118. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  119. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  120. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  121. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  122. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  123. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  124. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  125. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  126. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  127. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  128. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  129. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  130. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  131. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  132. William IV 1765 – 1837
  133. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  134. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  135. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  136. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  137. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  138. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  139. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  140. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  141. George IV 1762 – 1830
  142. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  143. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  144. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  145. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  146. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  147. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  148. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  149. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  150. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758