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Charles Darwin & Giuseppe Verdi

Did Charles Darwin and Giuseppe Verdi live at the same time?

Yes. Charles Darwin and Giuseppe Verdi lived at the same time for 69 years, from 1813 to 1882.[1][2][3][4]

Charles Darwin · Giuseppe Verdi · Born in 1809 · Born in 1813

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
1809–1882
Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
1813–1901
Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
18091901
Charles Darwin
Giuseppe Verdi
Charles Darwin
Science & Invention
Born in The Mount
Died in Down House
Giuseppe Verdi
Music
Born in Le Roncole
Died in Milan

World Events During Their Overlap

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated
1825 First public railway opens in England
1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire
1838 First photograph of a person taken
1848 Revolutions of 1848 sweep Europe
1853 Crimean War begins
1859 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1861 American Civil War begins
1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States
1869 Suez Canal opens
1871 Unification of Germany
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

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82 years overlap
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81 years overlap

Sources

  1. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  2. Charles Darwin (Q1035) — Wikidata
  3. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  4. Giuseppe Verdi (Q7317) — Wikidata