Who Was Alive

Vespasian

Ninth Roman Emperor and founder of the Flavian dynasty (69–79)

Born 17 November AD 9 · died 4 June AD 79, aged 69

Who was alive at the same time as Vespasian?

  1. Strabo
  2. Augustus
  3. Titus Livius
  4. Ovid
  5. Tiberius
  6. Claudius
  7. Galba
  8. Saint Peter
  9. Paul the Apostle
  10. Vespasian
  11. Mark the Evangelist
  12. Linus
  13. Caligula
  14. Pliny the Elder
  15. Josephus
  16. Nero
  17. Titus
  18. Plutarch
  19. Epictetus
  20. Domitian
  21. Tacitus
  22. Trajan
  23. Pliny the Younger
  24. Hadrian
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 Vespasian was born, Augustus was 71, Ovid was 51, Saint Peter was 8 or 9, Titus Livius was 66 or 67 and Tiberius was 50.

When Vespasian died, Trajan was 25, Hadrian was 3, Titus was 39, Domitian was 27 and Josephus was 41 or 42.

Born during Vespasian’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Epictetus, Trajan and Hadrian.

Not quite contemporaries: Antoninus Pius was born 7 years after Vespasian died.

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All 25 contemporaries we track

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – AD 64–67
  4. Plutarch AD 40–50 – c. AD 120
  5. Saint Peter BC – AD 64–68
  6. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  7. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  8. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  9. Titus Livius BC – AD 17
  10. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  11. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  12. Epictetus c. AD 50 – AD 125–138
  13. Strabo c. 63 BC – AD 21–24
  14. Trajan AD 53 – AD 115–119
  15. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  16. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  17. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  18. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – AD 112–114
  19. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  20. Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  21. Mark the Evangelist AD 9–20 – AD 68
  22. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  23. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  24. Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  25. Martial AD 38–41 – AD 104