Clovis I
c. 466 – 511 · 45 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 481 – 511 (Franks and France)
Merovingian king who defeated Syagrius, the last Roman ruler in Gaul, and the Visigoths at Vouillé (507). He was baptised at Reims and made Paris his capital.
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Contemporaries around the world
Middle East
- Justinian I — Byzantine emperor, 16 years younger
- Theodora — Byzantine empress, 34 years younger
- Khosrow I — Sasanian king of kings, 35 years younger
Asia
- Aryabhata — mathematician and astronomer, 10 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 476 Fall of the Western Roman Empire — aged 10, Europe
- c. 496 Baptism of Clovis — aged 30, Europe
- c. 500 Rise of Tiwanaku — aged 34, Americas
- c. 500 Completion of the Babylonian Talmud — aged 34, Middle East