CONTEMPORARY FIGURES IN HISTORY
TIMEB.C.
India
China
Persia
Greece
Rome
Judah
Egypt
Macedon
TIMEB.C.
500
Buddha
Confucius
Darius
Æschylus
Tarquin the Proud
Haggai
500
Xerxes
Themistocles
Zechariah
450
Artaxerxes
Socrates
Nehemiah
450
Plato
Ezra
Pericles
Herodotus
Thucydides
Sophocles
400
Euripides
400
350
Aristotle
Philip
350
Demosthenes
Alexander
200
Hannibal
Judas Maccabæus
200
50
Julius Cæsar
Cleopatra
50
Cicero
Jesus
Augustus
John the Baptist
Jesus
Christ
Tiberius
Christ
Horace
Virgil, Livy
A.D.
Britain
France
Germany
Switzerland
Rome, Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Africa & East
A.D.
50
Boadicea
Seneca
Josephus
50
St. Paul
300
Constantine
Athanasius
300
400
Alaric
Augustine
400
600
Chas. Martel
Mahomet
600
700
Bede
700
800
Alfred
Charlemagne
Haroun-al-Raschid
800
1100
The Cid
Omar Khayyam (Persia)
1100
1200
St. Francis
1200
1300
Chaucer
William Tell
Aquinas
Tamerlane
1300
Dante
1350
Wycliffe
Froissart
Arnold von Winkelried
Petrarch
Hafiz (Persia)
1350
Boccaccio
1450
Caxton
Da Vinci
1450
1500
Knox
Rabelais
Luther
Calvin
Columbus
Ignatius Loyola
Erasmus
1500
Latimer
Copernicus
Savonarola
St. Theresa
Machiavelli
Ferdnd. & Isabella
Cortez
Russia
1550
Philip Sidney
Montaigne
Cellini
Alva
William the Silent
Ivan the Terrible
1550
Spenser
Scaliger
Tasso
1600
Shakespeare
Corneille
Kepler
Galileo
Cervantes
Rubens
1600
Raleigh
Richelieu
Scandinavia
Bacon
Descartes
Gustavus Adolphus
Van Dyck
Jonson
Grotius
1650
Cromwell
Pascal
Peter the Gt. [& Catherine]
1650
Milton
Racine
Leibnitz
Spinoza
Bunyan
Molière
Dryden
Fénélon
Locke
Rochefoucauld
Hobbes
Louis XIV.
1700
Swift
1700
Steele
Handel
Holberg
Addison
Walpole
America
1750
Chatham
Fredk the Gt
Rousseau
Franklin
1750
Burke
Voltaire
Goethe
Gessner
Washington
Pitt and Fox
Lavoisier
Schiller
Pestalozzi
Wesley
Napoleon
Haydn
Pestalozzi
Burns
Mozart
Goldsmith
Kant
Sheridan
Dr. Johnson
Coleridge
Flaxman
Reynolds
Gainsboro’gh
Nelson
Wellington
1800
Faraday
Hegel
Tegner
1800
Scott
Beethoven
Thorwaldsen
Byron
Keats
Shelley
Wordsworth
Lamb
1825
Gladstone
Balzac
Wagner
Garibaldi
Hans Andersen
Irving
1825
Macaulay
Dumas
Heine
Mazzini
Runeberg
Emerson
Disraeli
Victor Hugo
Bismarck
Cavour
Wergeland
Longfellow
Landseer
Georges Sand
Moltke
Victor Emmanuel
Welhaven
Whittier
Mill
Lesseps
Bunsen
Ibsen
Lowell
Livingstone
Napoleon 3
William I.
Bjornson
Holmes
Ruskin
Gambetta
Lincoln
Dickens
Turgenieff
Carlyle
Thackeray
Tolstoy
Browning
Tennyson
Darwin
Hungary
Huxley
Kossuth
Spencer
1900
1900