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Charles Darwin & Ralph Waldo Emerson

Did Charles Darwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson live at the same time?

Yes. Charles Darwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson lived at the same time for 73 years, from 1809 to 1882.[1][2][3][4]

Charles Darwin · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Born in 1809 · Born in 1803

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
1809–1882
Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882
Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
18031882
Charles Darwin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Darwin
Science & Invention
Born in The Mount
Died in Down House
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy & Thought
Born in Boston
Died in Concord

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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Sources

  1. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  2. Charles Darwin (Q1035) — Wikidata
  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Q48226) — Wikidata