Who Was Alive

Ibn Khaldun

Historiographer and historian

Born 1331–1332 · died 1405–1406, aged 73 or 74

Who was alive at the same time as Ibn Khaldun?

  1. Giotto
  2. William of Ockham
  3. Ibn Battuta
  4. Petrarch
  5. Giovanni Boccaccio
  6. Hafez
  7. Ibn Khaldun
  8. Timur
  9. Geoffrey Chaucer
  10. Jan Hus
  11. Zheng He
  12. Donatello
  13. Pius II
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 Ibn Khaldun was born, Ibn Battuta was 27 or 28 and Petrarch was 27 or 28.

When Ibn Khaldun died, Pius II was about a year old.

Born during Ibn Khaldun’s lifetime: Geoffrey Chaucer, Timur, Zheng He, Donatello, Jan Hus and Pius II.

Not quite contemporaries: Dante Alighieri died 11 years before Ibn Khaldun was born, Marco Polo died 8 years before Ibn Khaldun was born, Joan of Arc was born 4 years after Ibn Khaldun died and Osman I died 6 years before Ibn Khaldun was born.

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