Ulysses S. Grant
1822 – 1885 · 63 years · Washington, D.C. · Americas
Reign: 1869 – 1877 (US presidents)
The general who accepted Lee's surrender in 1865. As president he defended the rights of freed Black Americans and fought the Ku Klux Klan, but his administration was shaken by corruption scandals.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: Henry Ulke · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 3 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 4 years older
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 13 years older
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 31 years younger
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 45 years younger
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 52 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 1 year older
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 6 years younger
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 12 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 18 years younger
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 23 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 48 years younger
Middle East
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 20 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 1 year younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 39 years younger
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 37 years older
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 8 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 22 years younger
Africa
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 9 years older
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 22 years younger
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 53 years older
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 6 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 36 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 18 years younger
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 47 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 15 years younger
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 30 years younger
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 62 years older
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 39 years younger
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 49 years older
Americas
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 13 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 25 years younger
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 34 years younger
- Benito Juárez — President of Mexico, 16 years older
- Mark Twain — writer and humorist, 13 years younger
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 25 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 49 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 7 years older
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 10 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 16 years younger
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 25 years younger
- Ned Kelly — bushranger and Australian folk hero, 32 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 0, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 6, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 9, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 11, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 13, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 13, Americas
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — aged 16, Americas
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 17, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 17, Europe
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — aged 17, Middle East
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — aged 17, Middle East
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 23, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 24, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 24, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 25, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 26, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 26, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 29, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 31, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 31, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 37, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 39, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 39, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 39, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 41, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 42, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 45, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 45, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 46, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 47, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 47, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 47, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 48, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 49, Europe
- 1871 Paris Commune — aged 49, Europe
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 52, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 54, Americas
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 57, Americas
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 61, Asia
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 63, Asia