Who Was Alive

Charles II of England

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Born 29 May 1630 (Julian calendar) · died 6 February 1685 (Julian calendar), aged 54

Who was alive at the same time as Charles II of England?

  1. Lope de Vega
  2. Galileo Galilei
  3. Johannes Kepler
  4. Peter Paul Rubens
  5. Thomas Hobbes
  6. René Descartes
  7. Diego Velázquez
  8. Oliver Cromwell
  9. Rembrandt
  10. John Milton
  11. Jean de La Fontaine
  12. Molière
  13. Blaise Pascal
  14. Charles II of England
  15. John Locke
  16. Benedictus de Spinoza
  17. Louis XIV of France
  18. Isaac Newton
  19. Matsuo Bashō
  20. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  21. Daniel Defoe
  22. Jonathan Swift
  23. Peter the Great
  24. Antonio Vivaldi
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Charles II of England was born, Galileo Galilei was 66, René Descartes was 34, Molière was 8, Rembrandt was 23 and Blaise Pascal was 6.

When Charles II of England died, Isaac Newton was 42, John Locke was 52, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 38, Matsuo Bashō was 40 or 41 and Louis XIV of France was 46.

Born during Charles II of England’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Louis XIV of France, Peter the Great, Benedictus de Spinoza and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died 14 years before Charles II of England was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was born months after Charles II of England died, Voltaire was born 9 years after Charles II of England died and Miguel de Cervantes died 14 years before Charles II of England was born.

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All 53 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  17. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  27. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  28. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  29. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  30. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  31. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  32. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  33. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  34. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  35. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  36. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  37. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  38. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  39. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  40. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  41. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  42. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  43. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  44. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  45. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  46. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  47. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  48. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  49. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  50. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  51. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  52. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  53. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745