Political Leaders through history
The atlas holds 107 people and 4,290 moments here, from 1281 BC to 2025. The most recorded lives are Adolf Hitler, Karl Marx and Leonardo da Vinci. Across the Cold War and the Interwar Period.
Notable people
Abraham Lincoln
from 1809 to 1865
68 moments here
American lawyer, Illinois legislator, congressman, and sixteenth president of the United States.…
Adolf Hitler
from 1889 to 1945
75 moments here
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…
Alexander the Great
from 356 BC to 323 BC
54 moments here
Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BCE), known as Alexander the Great, became king of Macedon in 336 BCE and campaigned from the Balkans through the…
Alexei Navalny
from 1976 to 2024
24 moments here
Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist, politician, and political prisoner. This chronology records supported locations of his birth,…
Ali ibn Abi Talib
from 600 to 661
21 moments here
Ali ibn Abi Talib was the fourth Rashidun caliph (656–661), cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, and first Shia Imam.…
Ashoka
from 304 BC to 249 BC
12 moments here
Ashoka was the third Mauryan emperor, ruling most of the Indian subcontinent from approximately 268 to 232 BCE.…
Augustus
from 63 BC to 14
51 moments here
Augustus, born Gaius Octavius and conventionally called Octavian before 27 BC, founded the Roman principate.…
Benazir Bhutto
from 1953 to 2007
31 moments here
Pakistani political leader who served twice as prime minister, from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996.…
Benito Mussolini
from 1883 to 1945
45 moments here
Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…
Benjamin Franklin
from 1706 to 1790
28 moments here
American printer, scientist, civic leader, colonial agent, revolutionary statesman, and diplomat.…
Catherine II of Russia
from 1729 to 1796
60 moments here
Catherine II (Catherine the Great), born Sophie Auguste Friederike of Anhalt-Zerbst, was empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.…
Charles de Gaulle
from 1890 to 1970
47 moments here
French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War, head of France's Provisional Government, and president of the French Fifth…
Che Guevara
from 1928 to 1967
44 moments here
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967) was an Argentine physician, Marxist revolutionary, Cuban government official, diplomat, and guerrilla commander.…
Cicero
from 106 BC to 43 BC
83 moments here
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) was a Roman lawyer, orator, philosopher, consul, provincial governor, and defender of the late Republic.…
Constantine the Great
from 272 to 337
96 moments here
Roman emperor from 306 to 337. Born at Naissus, Constantine served under Diocletian and Galerius in the eastern empire, joined his father in Britain,…
Corazon Aquino
from 1933 to 2009
29 moments here
María Corazón Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was a Filipino political leader and president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.…
Dante Alighieri
from 1265 to 1321
26 moments here
Florentine poet, prose writer, philosopher, and statesman whose Divine Comedy became a foundational work of Italian and European literature.…
Dwight D. Eisenhower
from 1890 to 1969
48 moments here
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and the 34th president of the United…
Ebrahim Raisi
from 1960 to 2024
24 moments here
Iranian cleric, judicial official, and politician who served as president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024.…
Empress Dowager Cixi
from 1835 to 1908
13 moments here
Empress Dowager Cixi (Yehe Nara Xingzhen) was a Manchu noblewoman who exercised decisive power in the Qing government as empress dowager and regent…
Ernest Rutherford
from 1871 to 1937
21 moments here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
Fidel Castro
from 1926 to 2016
52 moments here
Cuban revolutionary and political leader who led the 26th of July Movement against Fulgencio Batista, became Cuba's prime minister in 1959, and later…
Francis Bacon
from 1561 to 1626
13 moments here
English philosopher, lawyer, statesman, Attorney General, and Lord Chancellor under James I.…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
from 1882 to 1945
92 moments here
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…
Moments
- 570 BC Birth and early years on Samos Pythagoras
- 468 BC First Dionysia victory Sophocles
- 343 BC Studied at Mieza Alexander the Great
- 90 BC Serves in the Social War Cicero
- 82 BC Hides in the Sabine country Julius Caesar
- 47 BC Assumes the toga of manhood Augustus
- 1269 Meets his returning father in Venice Marco Polo
- 1283 Exchanged greetings with Beatrice in Florence Dante Alighieri
- 1469 Moves to Florence Leonardo da Vinci
- 1491 Studies at the University of Kraków Nicolaus Copernicus
- 1498 First diplomatic mission Niccolò Machiavelli
- 1564 Baptized at Pisa Cathedral Galileo Galilei
- 1652 Christ Church residence and study John Locke
- 1687 Stay at Rheinfels Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1723 Move to Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin
- 1735 Lives at Little Hunting Creek George Washington
- 1761 College of William & Mary student Thomas Jefferson
- 1765 Takes lodgings as a Leipzig student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1779 Enrolls at school in Autun Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1806 Residence at Burgage Manor Lord Byron
- 1807 Rejoins his father in Avellino Victor Hugo
- 1811 Childhood at Knob Creek Farm Abraham Lincoln
- 1816 Childhood at Kniephof estate Otto von Bismarck
- 1835 Enrolls at Bonn University Karl Marx
- 1838 Commercial apprenticeship Friedrich Engels
- 1871 Childhood summers at Kokushkino Vladimir Lenin
- 1876 Family settles in Rajkot Mahatma Gandhi
- 1882 Return to the family farm Henry Ford
- 1884 Infancy near Harrisonville Harry S. Truman
- 1894 Enrolls at Tiflis Theological Seminary Joseph Stalin
- 1896 Arrives in Bangalore Winston Churchill
- 1898 Settles near Linz in childhood Adolf Hitler
- 1905 Moves into Springwood after marriage Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1905 Graduates from the Military College Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1910 Entered Saint-Cyr military academy Charles de Gaulle
- 1911 Lives on Glassburn Street Ronald Reagan
- 1912 Studies in Changsha Mao Zedong
- 1924 Childhood in Archery Jimmy Carter
- 1925 Childhood relocation to Greenwich George H. W. Bush
- 1925 Attends school near Qunu Nelson Mandela
- 1927 Relocated to Riverdale John F. Kennedy
- 1938 Munich Conference Benito Mussolini
- 1941 German occupation of family home Yuri Gagarin
- 1941 Moves to Boulevard home Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1942 Underground seminary in occupied Kraków Pope John Paul II
- 1948 Medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires Che Guevara
- 1950 Arrival for Moscow State University Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1959 United States working visit Fidel Castro
- 1975 Meeting President Ford Margaret Thatcher
- 2013 Papal inauguration Mass Pope Francis