John Tyler
1790 – 1862 · 72 years · Washington, D.C. · Americas
Reign: 1841 – 1845 (US presidents)
Took office in 1841 on the death of William Henry Harrison, setting the precedent of full succession. He secured the annexation of Texas (1845) and sided with the Confederacy in 1861.
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Portrait: George Peter Alexander Healy · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 19 years younger
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 28 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 29 years younger
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 41 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 20 years older
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 21 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 31 years younger
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 9 years younger
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 38 years younger
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 44 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 50 years younger
- Nicholas I — emperor who crushed the Decembrist revolt, 6 years younger
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 5 years older
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 33 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 52 years younger
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 40 years younger
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 29 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 11 years older
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 21 years older
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 23 years younger
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 3 years older
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 54 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 4 years older
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 12 years older
Asia
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 30 years older
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 17 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 47 years younger
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 62 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 3 years younger
- Tokugawa Iesada — shogun under whom Japan opened its ports to the West, 34 years younger
Americas
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 19 years younger
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 7 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 57 years younger
- José de San Martín — liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, 12 years older
- Benito Juárez — President of Mexico, 16 years younger
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 23 years older
Oceania
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 32 years older
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 22 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 25 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 18 years older
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 52 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 48 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 1, Americas
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — aged 6, Europe
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — aged 8, Africa
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 13, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 14, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 14, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 14, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 15, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 15, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 20, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 22, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — aged 24, Europe
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — aged 25, Asia
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — aged 25, Europe
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — aged 26, Europe
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — aged 27, Asia
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — aged 27, Americas
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 29, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 32, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 38, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 41, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 43, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 45, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 45, Americas
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — aged 48, Americas
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 49, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 49, Europe
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — aged 49, Middle East
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — aged 49, Middle East
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 55, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 56, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 56, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 57, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 58, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 58, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 61, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 63, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 63, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 69, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 71, Europe