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Charles Darwin & Victor Hugo

Did Charles Darwin and Victor Hugo live at the same time?

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

Charles Darwin · Victor Hugo · Born in 1809 · Born in 1802

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
1809–1882
Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
1802–1885
Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
18021885
Charles Darwin
Victor Hugo
Charles Darwin
Science & Invention
Born in The Mount
Died in Down House
Victor Hugo
Literature
Born in Besançon
Died in Paris

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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Victor Hugo & Ralph Waldo Emerson
79 years overlap
Victor Hugo & Franz Liszt
74 years overlap
Victor Hugo & Giuseppe Verdi
72 years overlap

Sources

  1. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  2. Charles Darwin (Q1035) — Wikidata
  3. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  4. Victor Hugo (Q535) — Wikidata