Amanirenas
c. 60 BC – 10 BC · 50 years · Meroë · Africa
One-eyed kandake of Meroë who fought Rome in the 20s BC and won a favourable peace from Augustus.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Augustus — first Roman emperor, 3 years older
- Julius Caesar — Roman general and dictator, 40 years older
- Virgil — Roman poet, 10 years older
- Cicero — Roman orator and statesman, 46 years older
- Pompey the Great — Roman general and statesman, 46 years older
- Livia Drusilla — wife of Augustus, first Roman empress, 1 year younger
Middle East
- Herod the Great — king of Judea, 12 years older
Africa
- Cleopatra — last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, 9 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 58 BC–50 BC Caesar's conquest of Gaul — aged 2, Europe
- 44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — aged 16, Europe
- 31 BC Battle of Actium — aged 29, Europe
- 30 BC Death of Cleopatra — aged 30, Africa
- 27 BC Octavian becomes Augustus — aged 33, Europe