Marcus Aurelius
121 – 180 · 59 years · Rome · Europe
Reign: 96 – 192 (Rome and Byzantium)
Last of the Five Good Emperors. He spent much of his reign fighting on the Danube and wrote his Stoic Meditations on campaign.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Galen — physician and anatomist, 8 years younger
Africa
- Claudius Ptolemy — astronomer and geographer, 21 years older
Asia
- Cao Cao — warlord of the Three Kingdoms era, 34 years younger
- Zhang Heng — astronomer, inventor of the seismoscope, 43 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 165–180 Antonine Plague — aged 44, Europe