Nikolay Przhevalsky
1839 – 1888 · 49 years · Central Asia · Asia
Russian explorer who led expeditions to the Ussuri region, Mongolia, China and Tibet; described the wild horse named after him.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: В.Класен · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 20 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 21 years older
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 30 years older
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 14 years younger
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 28 years younger
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 35 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 11 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 5 years older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 1 year younger
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 18 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 31 years younger
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 39 years younger
Middle East
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 3 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 22 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 16 years older
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 5 years younger
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 9 years older
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 5 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 26 years older
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 70 years older
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 11 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 1 year younger
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 12 years younger
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 30 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 2 years older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 13 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 22 years younger
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 27 years younger
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 79 years older
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 8 years younger
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 17 years younger
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 30 years older
- Mark Twain — writer and humorist, 4 years older
- Ulysses S. Grant — 18th US president, commanding general of the Union Army, 17 years older
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 8 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 32 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 24 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 1 year older
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 8 years younger
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 27 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 22 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 0, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 0, Europe
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — aged 0, Middle East
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — aged 0, Middle East
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 6, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 7, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 7, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 8, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 9, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 9, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 12, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 14, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 14, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 20, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 22, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 22, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 22, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 24, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 25, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 28, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 28, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 29, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 30, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 30, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 30, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 31, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 32, Europe
- 1871 Paris Commune — aged 32, Europe
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 35, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 37, Americas
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — aged 37, Asia
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — aged 37, Middle East
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — aged 38, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1878 Congress of Berlin — aged 39, Europe
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 40, Americas
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — aged 40, Africa
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 44, Asia
- 1884–1885 Berlin Conference — aged 45, Europe
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 46, Asia
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 47, Europe