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Charles Darwin & Richard Wagner

Did Charles Darwin and Richard Wagner live at the same time?

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

Charles Darwin · Richard Wagner · Born in 1809 · Born in 1813

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
1809–1882
Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
1813–1883
Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
18091883
Charles Darwin
Richard Wagner
Charles Darwin
Science & Invention
Born in The Mount
Died in Down House
Richard Wagner
Music
Born in Leipzig
Died in Venice

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. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  4. Richard Wagner (Q1511) — Wikidata