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Vercingetorix
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Vercingetorix

Traditional leader or chief

Born c. 80 BC · died 46 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Vercingetorix?

  1. Tigranes the Great, 140–BC
  2. Marcus Terentius Varro, 116–BC
  3. Marcus Licinius Crassus, 115–53 BC
  4. Cicero, 106–43 BC
  5. Pompey, 106–48 BC
  6. Spartacus, 103–71 BC
  7. Julius Caesar, 100–44 BC
  8. Lucretius, BC–55 BC
  9. Diodorus Siculus, c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  10. Marcus Junius Brutus, c. 85 – 42 BC
  11. Catullus, c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  12. Sallust, 86–35 BC
  13. Mark Antony, BC–BC
  14. Vercingetorix, c. 80 – BC
  15. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  16. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  17. Cleopatra, c. 69 – 30 BC
  18. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  19. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  20. Horace, 65–8 BC
  21. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, BC–BC
  22. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  23. Livy, BC – AD 17
  24. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12

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When Vercingetorix died, Julius Caesar was 53 or 54, Virgil was 23 or 24, Augustus was 16 or 17, Cicero was 59 or 60 and Horace was 18 or 19.

Born during Vercingetorix’s lifetime: Virgil, Augustus, Cleopatra, Horace, Livy, Strabo, Herod the Great and Saint Anne.

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid was born about 3 years after Vercingetorix died, Sima Qian died about 3 years before Vercingetorix was born, Tiberius was born about 4 years after Vercingetorix died and Gaius Marius died about 3 years before Vercingetorix was born.

What happened in Vercingetorix’s lifetime

Where Vercingetorix’s contemporaries were born

Vercingetorix is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (39 of 44 placed); tap one to open that person.
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The 43 best-known contemporaries

43 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vercingetorix. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 62 BC.

  1. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Cicero 106–43 BC
  5. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  6. Horace 65–8 BC
  7. Livy BC – AD 17
  8. Lucretius BC–55 BC
  9. Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  10. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  11. Pompey 106–48 BC
  12. Mark Antony BC–BC
  13. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  14. Spartacus 103–71 BC
  15. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  16. Sallust 86–35 BC
  17. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  18. Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85 – 42 BC
  19. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  20. Marcus Licinius Crassus 115–53 BC
  21. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  22. Tigranes the Great 140–BC
  23. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  24. Mithridates VI Eupator c. 133 – BC
  25. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  26. Cato the Younger BC–BC
  27. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  28. Caesarion 47–30 BC
  29. Posidonius 135–BC
  30. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  31. Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator BC–47 BC
  32. Catiline 108–62 BC
  33. Livia BC – AD 29
  34. Ptolemy XII Auletes 117–BC
  35. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  36. Gaius Cassius Longinus c. 82 – BC
  37. Juba II BC – AD 23
  38. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  39. Lucullus c. 117 – c. 57 BC
  40. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  41. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  42. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  43. Alexander Jannaeus c. 127 – BC