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1693 – 1740 · 47 years · Saint Petersburg · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1730 – 1740 (Rus and Russia)
Niece of Peter the Great and dowager duchess of Courland. She tore up the Supreme Privy Council's Conditions limiting her power and returned the court to St Petersburg; her favourite Biron wielded vast influence.
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Portrait: Louis Caravaque · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Sebastian Bach — German composer and organist, 8 years older
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 1 year younger
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 50 years older
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 55 years older
- Carl Linnaeus — Swedish naturalist, 14 years younger
- Louis XV — king under whom France lost Canada, 17 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Peter the Great — first Emperor of Russia, 21 years older
- Mikhail Lomonosov — Russian polymath, 18 years younger
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 36 years younger
- Vitus Bering — Danish explorer in Russian service, 12 years older
- Catherine I — first Russian empress, widow of Peter the Great, 9 years older
- Leonhard Euler — Swiss mathematician, 14 years younger
Middle East
- Nader Shah — Shah of Iran and conqueror, 5 years older
- Ahmed III — sultan of the 'Tulip Era', 20 years older
- Mahmud I — sultan who regained Belgrade by the 1739 peace, 3 years younger
- Osman III — sultan who spent 50 years in the 'cage', 6 years younger
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 10 years younger
- Mustafa III — sultan who lost the war to Catherine II, 24 years younger
Africa
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 48 years older
- Osei Tutu I — founder of the Ashanti Empire, 33 years older
- Kimpa Vita — Kongolese prophet, 9 years older
Asia
- Kangxi Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 39 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshimune — reforming shogun who allowed Western books, 9 years older
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 18 years younger
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi — the 'Dog Shogun' who outlawed cruelty to animals, 47 years older
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 75 years older
- Tokugawa Ieshige — ailing shogun whose speech only one courtier understood, 19 years younger
Americas
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 13 years younger
- Aleijadinho — Brazilian sculptor and architect, 37 years younger
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 35 years younger
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 32 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — aged 10, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — aged 28, Eastern Europe & Russia