Arthur Phillip
1738 – 1814 · 76 years · Sydney · Oceania
Commanded the convict First Fleet and in 1788 founded Sydney, the first British settlement in Australia.
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Portrait: Francis Wheatley · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 11 years younger
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 31 years younger
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 32 years younger
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 44 years older
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Austrian composer, 18 years younger
- Johann Sebastian Bach — German composer and organist, 53 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 9 years older
- Mikhail Lomonosov — Russian polymath, 27 years older
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 61 years younger
- Mikhail Kutuzov — Russian field marshal, 7 years younger
- Alexander Suvorov — Russian generalissimo, 8 years older
- Paul I — emperor who reformed the succession law, killed by conspirators, 16 years younger
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 47 years younger
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 35 years older
- Abdul Hamid I — sultan of the Küçük Kaynarca peace and the loss of Crimea, 13 years older
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 23 years younger
- Mustafa III — sultan who lost the war to Catherine II, 21 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 41 years younger
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 31 years younger
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 49 years younger
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 16 years younger
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 40 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 48 years younger
Asia
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 27 years older
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 22 years younger
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 13 years younger
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 35 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshimune — reforming shogun who allowed Western books, 54 years older
- Tokugawa Ieharu — shogun of the Tanuma era and the Tenmei famine, 1 year older
Americas
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 6 years older
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 32 years older
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 45 years younger
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 5 years younger
- Toussaint Louverture — leader of the Haitian Revolution, 5 years younger
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 29 years younger
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 10 years older
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 20 years younger
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 13 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 26 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 34 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1747 Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Afghan state — aged 9, Middle East
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake — aged 17, Europe
- 1756–1763 Seven Years' War — aged 18, Europe
- 1757 Battle of Plassey — aged 19, Asia
- c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — aged 22, Europe
- 1762 Accession of Catherine the Great — aged 24, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1764 Founding of the Hermitage — aged 26, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — aged 30, Oceania
- c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — aged 30, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1769 Watt's steam engine — aged 31, Europe
- 1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — aged 34, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1776 US Declaration of Independence — aged 38, Americas
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 45, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 45, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 45, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 49, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 50, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 51, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 51, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 53, Americas
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — aged 58, Europe
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — aged 60, Africa
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 65, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 66, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 66, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 66, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 67, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 67, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 72, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 74, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — aged 76, Europe