Miguel Hidalgo
1753 – 1811 · 58 years · Dolores · Americas
Village priest whose 1810 'Cry of Dolores' launched the Mexican War of Independence; captured and executed by the Spanish.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 4 years older
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 16 years younger
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 17 years younger
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Austrian composer, 3 years younger
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 59 years older
- James Watt — Scottish inventor and engineer, 17 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 24 years older
- Mikhail Lomonosov — Russian polymath, 42 years older
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 46 years younger
- Mikhail Kutuzov — Russian field marshal, 8 years older
- Alexander Suvorov — Russian generalissimo, 23 years older
- Paul I — emperor who reformed the succession law, killed by conspirators, 1 year younger
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 32 years younger
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 8 years younger
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 50 years older
- Abdul Hamid I — sultan of the Küçük Kaynarca peace and the loss of Crimea, 28 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 26 years younger
- Mustafa III — sultan who lost the war to Catherine II, 36 years older
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 16 years younger
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 34 years younger
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 1 year younger
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 25 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 33 years younger
Asia
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 7 years younger
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 42 years older
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 2 years older
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 20 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieharu — shogun of the Tanuma era and the Tenmei famine, 16 years older
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 40 years younger
Americas
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 21 years older
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 47 years older
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 30 years younger
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 10 years older
- Toussaint Louverture — leader of the Haitian Revolution, 10 years older
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 14 years younger
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 25 years older
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 5 years younger
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 28 years older
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 15 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 11 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 19 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake — aged 2, Europe
- 1756–1763 Seven Years' War — aged 3, Europe
- 1757 Battle of Plassey — aged 4, Asia
- c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — aged 7, Europe
- 1762 Accession of Catherine the Great — aged 9, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1764 Founding of the Hermitage — aged 11, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — aged 15, Oceania
- c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1769 Watt's steam engine — aged 16, Europe
- 1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — aged 19, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1776 US Declaration of Independence — aged 23, Americas
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 30, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 30, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 30, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 34, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 35, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 36, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 36, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 38, Americas
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — aged 43, Europe
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — aged 45, Africa
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 50, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 51, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 51, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 51, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 52, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 52, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 57, Americas