Shaka Zulu

1787 – 1828

Politics & Leadership

Shaka kaSenzangakhona, also known as Shaka (the) Zulu and Sigidi kaSenzangakhona, was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828. One of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu, he ordered wide-reaching reforms that reorganized the military into a formidable force.

Contemporaries

Francisco Goya

41 yr overlap

Hokusai

41 yr overlap

Simón Bolívar

41 yr overlap

Jacob Grimm

41 yr overlap

Niccolò Paganini

41 yr overlap

Ludwig van Beethoven

40 yr overlap

Thomas Jefferson

39 yr overlap

Michael Faraday

37 yr overlap

Charles Babbage

37 yr overlap

Edward Jenner

36 yr overlap

Napoleon Bonaparte

34 yr overlap

James Watt

32 yr overlap

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