Who Was Alive

Zhang Heng

Chinese cartographer

Born AD 78 · died AD 139
Also known as Chang Heng

Who was alive at the same time as Zhang Heng?

  1. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  2. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  3. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  4. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  5. Nerva, AD 30 – AD 98
  6. Quintilian, c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  7. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  8. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  9. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  10. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  11. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  12. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  13. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  14. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  15. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  16. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  17. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  18. Zhang Heng, AD 78 – AD 139
  19. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  20. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  21. Lucian, c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  22. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121 – AD 180
  23. Pertinax, AD 126 – AD 193
  24. Didius Julianus, AD 133 – AD 193

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When Zhang Heng was born, Trajan was 24 or 25, Vespasian was 68 or 69, Hadrian was 1 or 2, Titus was 38 or 39 and Domitian was 26 or 27.

When Zhang Heng died, Marcus Aurelius was 17 or 18, Antoninus Pius was 52 or 53, Didius Julianus was 5 or 6, Pertinax was 12 or 13 and Lucius Verus was 8 or 9.

Born during Zhang Heng’s lifetime: Marcus Aurelius, Ptolemy, Lucian, Antoninus Pius, Didius Julianus, Pertinax, Irenaeus and Lucius Verus.

Not quite contemporaries: Paul the Apostle died about 10 years before Zhang Heng was born, Saint Peter died about 9 years before Zhang Heng was born, Nero died about 9 years before Zhang Heng was born and Nagarjuna was born about 8 years after Zhang Heng died.

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Where Zhang Heng’s contemporaries were born

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The 59 best-known contemporaries

59 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Zhang Heng. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 108.

  1. Marcus Aurelius AD 121 – AD 180
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  4. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  5. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  6. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  7. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  8. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  9. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  10. Lucian c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  11. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  12. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  13. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  14. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  15. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  16. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  17. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  18. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  19. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  20. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  21. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  22. Didius Julianus AD 133 – AD 193
  23. Pertinax AD 126 – AD 193
  24. Irenaeus c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  25. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  26. Lucius Verus AD 130 – AD 169
  27. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  28. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  29. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  30. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  31. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  32. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  33. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  34. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  35. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  36. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  37. Aulus Gellius c. AD 130 – c. AD 180
  38. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  39. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  40. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  41. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  42. Tatian c. AD 120 – c. AD 173
  43. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  44. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  45. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  46. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  47. Gaius c. 120s – c. AD 180
  48. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  49. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  50. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  51. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  52. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  53. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  54. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  55. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  56. Vologases V AD 130 – AD 208
  57. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  58. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  59. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177