Andrew Jackson
1767 – 1845 · 78 years · Washington, D.C. · Americas
Reign: 1829 – 1837 (US presidents)
Hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and the first "people's president". He signed the Indian Removal Act (1830), which led to the Trail of Tears, and destroyed the Second Bank of the United States.
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Portrait: Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 18 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 3 years younger
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 2 years younger
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 42 years younger
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 51 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 52 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 32 years younger
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 38 years older
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 54 years younger
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 61 years younger
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 67 years younger
- Nicholas I — emperor who crushed the Decembrist revolt, 29 years younger
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 18 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 56 years younger
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 6 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 12 years younger
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 64 years older
- Abdul Hamid I — sultan of the Küçük Kaynarca peace and the loss of Crimea, 42 years older
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 2 years younger
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 20 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 46 years younger
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 11 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 19 years younger
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 13 years older
Asia
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 7 years older
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 6 years younger
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 56 years older
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 16 years older
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 26 years younger
- Tokugawa Iesada — shogun under whom Japan opened its ports to the West, 57 years younger
Americas
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 16 years younger
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 42 years younger
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 35 years older
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 61 years older
- José de San Martín — liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, 11 years younger
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 24 years older
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 39 years older
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 9 years older
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 5 years younger
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 29 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 3 years older
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 45 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — aged 1, Oceania
- c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — aged 1, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1769 Watt's steam engine — aged 2, Europe
- 1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — aged 5, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1776 US Declaration of Independence — aged 9, Americas
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 16, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 16, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 20, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 21, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 22, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 22, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 24, Americas
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — aged 29, Europe
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — aged 31, Africa
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 36, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 37, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 37, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 37, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 38, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 38, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 43, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 45, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — aged 47, Europe
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — aged 48, Asia
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — aged 48, Europe
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — aged 49, Europe
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — aged 50, Asia
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — aged 50, Americas
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 52, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 55, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 61, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 64, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 66, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 68, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 68, Americas
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — aged 71, Americas
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 72, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 72, Europe
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 78, Europe