Queen Victoria
1819 – 1901 · 82 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1837 – 1901 (England and Britain)
Reigned for 63 years (1837–1901), the height of the British Empire, an age that bears her name.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: Alexander Bassano · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 1 year older
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 10 years older
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 34 years younger
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 48 years younger
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 55 years younger
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 60 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 9 years younger
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 15 years younger
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 2 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 21 years younger
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 51 years younger
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 59 years younger
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 62 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 23 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 42 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 4 years younger
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 34 years older
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 25 years younger
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 25 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 6 years older
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 50 years older
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 9 years younger
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 21 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 33 years older
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 50 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 18 years younger
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 33 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 42 years younger
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 47 years younger
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 59 years older
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 28 years younger
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 10 years older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 37 years younger
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 70 years younger
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 36 years older
- Mark Twain — writer and humorist, 16 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 52 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 4 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 19 years younger
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 7 years older
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 28 years younger
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 42 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 0, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 3, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 9, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 12, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 14, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 16, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 16, Americas
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — aged 19, Americas
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 20, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 20, Europe
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — aged 20, Middle East
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — aged 20, Middle East
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 26, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 27, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 27, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 28, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 29, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 29, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 32, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 34, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 34, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 40, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 42, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 42, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 42, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 44, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 45, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 48, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 48, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 49, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 50, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 50, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 50, Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 57, Americas
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 60, Americas
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 64, Asia
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 66, Asia
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 67, Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 70, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 74, Oceania