Gautama Buddha
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c. 563 BC – 483 BC · 80 years · Bodh Gaya · Asia
Prince Siddhartha Gautama renounced his palace to seek truth, attained enlightenment and taught a path to liberation from suffering.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Pythagoras — Greek philosopher and mathematician, 7 years older
- Leonidas I — king of Sparta, 23 years younger
- Sophocles — Athenian tragic playwright, 66 years younger
- Pericles — Athenian statesman, 68 years younger
- Themistocles — Athenian statesman and admiral, 39 years younger
Middle East
- Cyrus the Great — founder of the Achaemenid Empire, 37 years older
- Darius the Great — King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, 13 years younger
- Xerxes I — king of the Achaemenid Empire, 45 years younger
- Thales of Miletus — philosopher and mathematician, 61 years older
- Heraclitus — Greek philosopher, 28 years younger
Asia
The world in their lifetime
- c. 563 BC Birth of the Buddha — aged 0, Asia
- 551 BC Birth of Confucius — aged 12, Asia
- 550 BC Cyrus the Great founds the Achaemenid Empire — aged 13, Middle East
- 539 BC Fall of Babylon to Cyrus — aged 24, Middle East
- c. 509 BC Founding of the Roman Republic — aged 54, Europe
- 508 BC Cleisthenes' reforms and the birth of democracy — aged 55, Europe
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — aged 73, Europe
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — aged 80, Asia