Queen Anne
1665 – 1714 · 49 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1702 – 1714 (England and Britain)
Last monarch of the House of Stuart. Under the Acts of Union of 1707 England and Scotland merged into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and in the War of the Spanish Succession the Duke of Marlborough won at Blenheim. None of her children outlived her.
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Portrait: Michael Dahl · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 27 years older
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 22 years older
- Johann Sebastian Bach — German composer and organist, 20 years younger
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 29 years younger
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — German philosopher and mathematician, 19 years older
- Leopold I — emperor under whom Vienna was saved from the Turks and Hungary retaken, 25 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Peter the Great — first Emperor of Russia, 7 years younger
- Vitus Bering — Danish explorer in Russian service, 16 years younger
- Catherine I — first Russian empress, widow of Peter the Great, 19 years younger
- Anna — empress who tore up the Conditions; era of Biron's dominance, 28 years younger
- Alexis the Most Quiet — tsar of the 1649 Law Code and the church schism, 36 years older
- Feodor III — tsar who abolished the precedence system (mestnichestvo), 4 years older
Middle East
- Ahmed III — sultan of the 'Tulip Era', 8 years younger
- Nader Shah — Shah of Iran and conqueror, 23 years younger
- Mustafa II — sultan who signed the Treaty of Karlowitz, 1 year older
- Ahmed II — sultan who lost the Battle of Slankamen, 22 years older
- Mehmed IV the Hunter — sultan of the Köprülü era and the siege of Vienna, 23 years older
- Suleiman II — sultan who retook Belgrade after 39 years in the 'cage', 23 years older
Africa
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 20 years older
- Osei Tutu I — founder of the Ashanti Empire, 5 years older
- Kimpa Vita — Kongolese prophet, 19 years younger
Asia
- Kangxi Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 11 years older
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi — the 'Dog Shogun' who outlawed cruelty to animals, 19 years older
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 47 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshimune — reforming shogun who allowed Western books, 19 years younger
- Matsuo Bashō — Japanese poet, 21 years older
- Shivaji — founder of the Maratha state, 35 years older
Americas
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Mexican poet and nun, 17 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1676 Leeuwenhoek sees microbes — aged 11, Europe
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — aged 17, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — aged 18, Europe
- 1687 Newton's Principia — aged 22, Europe
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — aged 23, Europe
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — aged 38, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — aged 44, Eastern Europe & Russia