Augustus
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63 BC – 14 · 76 years · Rome · Europe
Reign: 27 BC – 68 (Rome and Byzantium)
Caesar's adopted heir who defeated Antony and Cleopatra and founded the Roman Empire, ushering in the Pax Romana.
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Portrait: С. И. Сосновский · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Julius Caesar — Roman general and dictator, 37 years older
- Virgil — Roman poet, 7 years older
- Cicero — Roman orator and statesman, 43 years older
- Pompey the Great — Roman general and statesman, 43 years older
- Livia Drusilla — wife of Augustus, first Roman empress, 4 years younger
Middle East
- Herod the Great — king of Judea, 9 years older
Africa
- Cleopatra — last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, 6 years older
- Amanirenas — queen (kandake) of Kush, 3 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 58 BC–50 BC Caesar's conquest of Gaul — aged 5, Europe
- 44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — aged 19, Europe
- 31 BC Battle of Actium — aged 32, Europe
- 30 BC Death of Cleopatra — aged 33, Africa
- 27 BC Octavian becomes Augustus — aged 36, Europe
- c. 4 BC Nativity of Jesus — aged 59, Middle East
- 9 Battle of the Teutoburg Forest — aged 71, Europe