Juana Azurduy
1780 – 1862 · 82 years · Chuquisaca · Americas
Led guerrilla forces against Spain in Upper Peru (Bolivia); a national heroine of both Bolivia and Argentina.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 29 years younger
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 31 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 10 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 38 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 39 years younger
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 11 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 41 years younger
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 19 years younger
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 48 years younger
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 54 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 60 years younger
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 51 years older
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 5 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 43 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 62 years younger
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 50 years younger
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 19 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 1 year older
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 11 years older
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 33 years younger
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 7 years younger
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 64 years younger
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 2 years older
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 6 years younger
Asia
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 20 years older
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 7 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 57 years younger
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 69 years older
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 29 years older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 72 years younger
Americas
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 29 years younger
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 3 years younger
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 48 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 67 years younger
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 74 years older
- José de San Martín — liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, 2 years older
Oceania
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 22 years older
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 32 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 8 years older
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 35 years younger
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 42 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 16 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 3, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 3, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 7, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 8, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 9, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 9, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 11, Americas
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — aged 16, Europe
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — aged 18, Africa
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 23, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 24, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 24, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 24, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 25, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 25, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 30, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 32, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — aged 34, Europe
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — aged 35, Asia
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — aged 35, Europe
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — aged 36, Europe
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — aged 37, Asia
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — aged 37, Americas
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 39, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 42, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 48, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 51, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 53, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 55, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 55, Americas
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — aged 58, Americas
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 59, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 59, Europe
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — aged 59, Middle East
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — aged 59, Middle East
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 65, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 66, Americas
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 73, Asia
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 81, Europe