Daniel Defoe vs Peter the Great
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Compare the life timelines of Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) and Peter the Great (1672–1725) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 53 years, from 1672 to 1725.
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Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)
- — Born in London Verified
- — Educated at a dissenting academy in Newington Green Verified
- — Married Mary Tuffley Verified
- — Established himself as a merchant and went bankrupt Verified
- — Pilloried and imprisoned for The Shortest Way with the Dissenters Verified
- — Founded and wrote the periodical The Review Verified
- — Published Robinson Crusoe Verified
- — Published Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year Verified
- — Died in London Verified
Peter the Great (1672–1725)
- — Born in Moscow Verified
- — Proclaimed joint tsar with his half-brother Ivan V Verified
- — Became sole ruler of Russia Verified
- — Led the Grand Embassy to Western Europe Verified
- — Founded Saint Petersburg Verified
- — Won the Battle of Poltava Verified
- — Married Catherine (later Empress Catherine I) Verified
- — Concluded the Treaty of Nystad ending the Great Northern War Verified
- — Proclaimed Emperor of All Russia Verified
- — Died in Saint Petersburg Verified