Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon and Percy Bysshe Shelley alive at the same time?

Yes. Napoleon and Percy Bysshe Shelley were alive at the same time for 28 years, from 1792 to 1821.

Napoleon was 22 when Percy Bysshe Shelley was born.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was 28 when Napoleon died, aged 51.

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

Percy Bysshe Shelley

British Romantic poet

Born 4 August 1792 · died 8 July 1822, aged 29

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
Napoleon and Percy Bysshe Shelley in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.