Rulers of China — and who ruled the rest of the world at the same time

Franks and France: Clovis I 481 – 511

Rus and Russia: Rurik 862 – 879, Oleg the Wise 879 – 912

England and Britain: Alfred the Great 871 – 899, Edward the Elder 899 – 924

Franks and France: Charlemagne 768 – 814, Louis the Pious 814 – 840, Charles the Bald 843 – 877

Rus and Russia: Oleg the Wise 879 – 912, Igor of Kiev 912 – 945, Olga of Kiev 945 – 960, Sviatoslav I 960 – 972

England and Britain: Edward the Elder 899 – 924, Æthelstan 924 – 939, Edgar the Peaceful 959 – 975

Holy Roman Empire & Austria: Otto the Great 936 – 973

Rus and Russia: Olga of Kiev 945 – 960, Sviatoslav I 960 – 972, Yaropolk I 972 – 978, Vladimir the Great 978 – 1015, Sviatopolk the Accursed 1015 – 1019, Yaroslav the Wise 1019 – 1054, Iziaslav I 1054 – 1078, Vsevolod I 1078 – 1093, Sviatopolk II 1093 – 1113, Vladimir II Monomakh 1113 – 1125, Mstislav the Great 1125 – 1132, Yuri Dolgoruky 1132 – 1157, Andrey Bogolyubsky 1157 – 1174, Vsevolod the Big Nest 1176 – 1212, Yuri II of Vladimir 1212 – 1238, Yaroslav II of Vladimir 1238 – 1246, Alexander Nevsky 1252 – 1263, Daniel of Moscow 1263 – 1303

England and Britain: Edgar the Peaceful 959 – 975, Æthelred the Unready 978 – 1013, Cnut the Great 1016 – 1035, Edward the Confessor 1042 – 1066, William the Conqueror 1066 – 1087, William II Rufus 1087 – 1100, Henry I Beauclerc 1100 – 1135, Stephen of Blois 1135 – 1154, Henry II 1154 – 1189, Richard the Lionheart 1189 – 1199, John Lackland 1199 – 1216, Henry III 1216 – 1272, Edward I Longshanks 1272 – 1307

Franks and France: Hugh Capet 987 – 996, Robert II the Pious 996 – 1031, Henry I 1031 – 1060, Philip I 1060 – 1108, Louis VI the Fat 1108 – 1137, Louis VII the Young 1137 – 1180, Philip II Augustus 1180 – 1223, Louis VIII the Lion 1223 – 1226, Saint Louis (Louis IX) 1226 – 1270, Philip III the Bold 1270 – 1285

Holy Roman Empire & Austria: Otto the Great 936 – 973, Otto II 973 – 983, Otto III 983 – 1002, Henry II 1002 – 1024, Conrad II 1024 – 1039, Henry III 1039 – 1056, Henry IV 1056 – 1105, Henry V 1105 – 1125, Lothair III 1125 – 1137, Conrad III 1138 – 1152, Frederick Barbarossa 1152 – 1190, Henry VI 1190 – 1197, Philip of Swabia 1198 – 1208, Otto IV 1208 – 1215, Frederick II 1215 – 1250, Conrad IV 1250 – 1254, Interregnum 1254 – 1273, Rudolf I 1273 – 1291

Rus and Russia: Daniel of Moscow 1263 – 1303, Yury of Moscow 1303 – 1325, Ivan Kalita 1325 – 1340, Simeon the Proud 1340 – 1353, Ivan II the Fair 1353 – 1359, Dmitry Donskoy 1359 – 1389

England and Britain: Henry III 1216 – 1272, Edward I Longshanks 1272 – 1307, Edward II 1307 – 1327, Edward III 1327 – 1377

Franks and France: Philip III the Bold 1270 – 1285, Philip IV the Fair 1285 – 1314, Louis X the Quarreller 1314 – 1316, Philip V the Tall 1316 – 1322, Charles IV the Fair 1322 – 1328, Philip VI 1328 – 1350, John II the Good 1350 – 1364, Charles V the Wise 1364 – 1380

Holy Roman Empire & Austria: Interregnum 1254 – 1273, Rudolf I 1273 – 1291, Adolf of Nassau 1292 – 1298, Albert I 1298 – 1308, Henry VII 1308 – 1313, Louis the Bavarian 1314 – 1347, Charles IV 1347 – 1378

Ottoman Empire: Osman I 1299 – 1324, Orhan 1324 – 1362, Murad I 1362 – 1389

Rus and Russia: Dmitry Donskoy 1359 – 1389, Vasily I 1389 – 1425, Vasily II the Blind 1425 – 1462, Ivan III 1462 – 1505, Vasily III 1505 – 1533, Ivan the Terrible 1533 – 1584, Feodor I 1584 – 1598, Boris Godunov 1598 – 1605, False Dmitry I 1605 – 1606, Vasily Shuisky 1606 – 1610, Seven Boyars 1610 – 1613, Michael I 1613 – 1645

England and Britain: Edward III 1327 – 1377, Richard II 1377 – 1399, Henry IV 1399 – 1413, Henry V 1413 – 1422, Henry VI 1422 – 1461, Edward IV 1461 – 1483, Richard III 1483 – 1485, Henry VII 1485 – 1509, Henry VIII 1509 – 1547, Edward VI 1547 – 1553, Mary I 1553 – 1558, Elizabeth I 1558 – 1603, James I 1603 – 1625, Charles I 1625 – 1649

Franks and France: Charles V the Wise 1364 – 1380, Charles VI the Mad 1380 – 1422, Charles VII 1422 – 1461, Louis XI 1461 – 1483, Charles VIII 1483 – 1498, Louis XII 1498 – 1515, Francis I 1515 – 1547, Henry II 1547 – 1559, Francis II 1559 – 1560, Charles IX 1560 – 1574, Henry III 1574 – 1589, Henry IV 1589 – 1610, Louis XIII 1610 – 1643, Louis XIV 1643 – 1715

Holy Roman Empire & Austria: Charles IV 1347 – 1378, Wenceslaus 1378 – 1400, Rupert of the Palatinate 1400 – 1410, Sigismund 1410 – 1437, Albert II 1438 – 1439, Frederick III 1440 – 1493, Maximilian I 1493 – 1519, Charles V 1519 – 1556, Ferdinand I 1556 – 1564, Maximilian II 1564 – 1576, Rudolf II 1576 – 1612, Matthias 1612 – 1619, Ferdinand II 1619 – 1637, Ferdinand III 1637 – 1657

Ottoman Empire: Murad I 1362 – 1389, Bayezid I the Thunderbolt 1389 – 1402, Interregnum 1402 – 1413, Mehmed I Çelebi 1413 – 1421, Murad II 1421 – 1451, Mehmed II 1451 – 1481, Bayezid II 1481 – 1512, Selim I the Grim 1512 – 1520, Suleiman the Magnificent 1520 – 1566, Selim II 1566 – 1574, Murad III 1574 – 1595, Mehmed III 1595 – 1603, Ahmed I 1603 – 1617, Mustafa I 1617 – 1618, Osman II 1618 – 1622, Mustafa I 1622 – 1623, Murad IV 1623 – 1640, Ibrahim the Mad 1640 – 1648

Rus and Russia: Michael I 1613 – 1645, Alexis the Most Quiet 1645 – 1676, Feodor III 1676 – 1682, Peter the Great 1682 – 1725, Catherine I 1725 – 1727, Peter II 1727 – 1730, Anna 1730 – 1740, Ivan VI 1740 – 1741, Elizabeth 1741 – 1762, Peter III 1762 – 1762, Catherine the Great 1762 – 1796, Paul I 1796 – 1801, Alexander I 1801 – 1825, Nicholas I 1825 – 1855, Alexander II of Russia 1855 – 1881, Alexander III the Peacemaker 1881 – 1894, Nicholas II 1894 – 1917

England and Britain: Charles I 1625 – 1649, Oliver Cromwell 1649 – 1660, Charles II 1660 – 1685, James II 1685 – 1688, William III of Orange 1689 – 1702, Queen Anne 1702 – 1714, George I 1714 – 1727, George II 1727 – 1760, George III 1760 – 1820, George IV 1820 – 1830, William IV 1830 – 1837, Queen Victoria 1837 – 1901, Edward VII 1901 – 1910, George V 1910 – 1936

Franks and France: Louis XIV 1643 – 1715, Louis XV 1715 – 1774, Louis XVI 1774 – 1792, First Republic 1792 – 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte 1804 – 1814, Louis XVIII 1814 – 1824, Charles X 1824 – 1830, Louis Philippe I 1830 – 1848, Second Republic 1848 – 1852, Napoleon III 1852 – 1870, Third Republic 1870 – 1940

Holy Roman Empire & Austria: Ferdinand III 1637 – 1657, Leopold I 1658 – 1705, Joseph I 1705 – 1711, Charles VI 1711 – 1740, Charles VII 1742 – 1745, Francis I 1745 – 1765, Joseph II 1765 – 1790, Leopold II 1790 – 1792, Francis II 1792 – 1835, Ferdinand I of Austria 1835 – 1848, Franz Joseph I 1848 – 1916

Ottoman Empire: Ibrahim the Mad 1640 – 1648, Mehmed IV the Hunter 1648 – 1687, Suleiman II 1687 – 1691, Ahmed II 1691 – 1695, Mustafa II 1695 – 1703, Ahmed III 1703 – 1730, Mahmud I 1730 – 1754, Osman III 1754 – 1757, Mustafa III 1757 – 1774, Abdul Hamid I 1774 – 1789, Selim III 1789 – 1807, Mustafa IV 1807 – 1808, Mahmud II 1808 – 1839, Abdulmejid I 1839 – 1861, Abdulaziz 1861 – 1876, Abdul Hamid II 1876 – 1909, Mehmed V Reşad 1909 – 1918

US presidents: George Washington 1789 – 1797, John Adams 1797 – 1801, Thomas Jefferson 1801 – 1809, James Madison 1809 – 1817, James Monroe 1817 – 1825, John Quincy Adams 1825 – 1829, Andrew Jackson 1829 – 1837, Martin Van Buren 1837 – 1841, John Tyler 1841 – 1845, James K. Polk 1845 – 1849, Zachary Taylor 1849 – 1850, Millard Fillmore 1850 – 1853, Franklin Pierce 1853 – 1857, James Buchanan 1857 – 1861, Abraham Lincoln 1861 – 1865, Andrew Johnson 1865 – 1869, Ulysses S. Grant 1869 – 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 – 1881, Chester A. Arthur 1881 – 1885, Grover Cleveland 1885 – 1889, Benjamin Harrison 1889 – 1893, Grover Cleveland 1893 – 1897, William McKinley 1897 – 1901, Theodore Roosevelt 1901 – 1909, William Howard Taft 1909 – 1913

Rus and Russia: Nicholas II 1894 – 1917, Provisional Government 1917 – 1917, Vladimir Lenin 1917 – 1924, Joseph Stalin 1924 – 1953

England and Britain: George V 1910 – 1936, George VI 1936 – 1952

Franks and France: Third Republic 1870 – 1940, Vichy France 1940 – 1944, Fourth Republic 1946 – 1958

Holy Roman Empire & Austria: Franz Joseph I 1848 – 1916, Charles I of Austria 1916 – 1918

Ottoman Empire: Mehmed V Reşad 1909 – 1918, Mehmed VI 1918 – 1922, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1923 – 1938

US presidents: William Howard Taft 1909 – 1913, Woodrow Wilson 1913 – 1921, Warren G. Harding 1921 – 1923, Calvin Coolidge 1923 – 1929, Herbert Hoover 1929 – 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 – 1945, Harry S. Truman 1945 – 1953

Rus and Russia: Joseph Stalin 1924 – 1953, Nikita Khrushchev 1953 – 1964, Leonid Brezhnev 1964 – 1982, Yuri Andropov 1982 – 1984, Konstantin Chernenko 1984 – 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev 1985 – 1991, Boris Yeltsin 1991 – 1999, Putin 2000 – 2008, Medvedev since 2008, Putin since 2012

England and Britain: George VI 1936 – 1952, Elizabeth II since 1952

Franks and France: Fourth Republic 1946 – 1958, Fifth Republic since 1958

US presidents: Harry S. Truman 1945 – 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953 – 1961, John F. Kennedy 1961 – 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 – 1969, Richard Nixon 1969 – 1974, Gerald Ford 1974 – 1977, Jimmy Carter 1977 – 1981, Ronald Reagan 1981 – 1989, George H. W. Bush 1989 – 1993, Clinton 1993 – 2001, G. W. Bush 2001 – 2009, Obama since 2009