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Florence Nightingale & Leo Tolstoy

Did Florence Nightingale and Leo Tolstoy live at the same time?

Yes. Florence Nightingale and Leo Tolstoy lived at the same time for 82 years, from 1828 to 1910.[1][2][3][4]

Florence Nightingale · Leo Tolstoy · Born in 1820 · Born in 1828

Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1820–1910
Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1828–1910
Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
18201910
Florence Nightingale
Leo Tolstoy
Florence Nightingale
Activism & Social Change
Born in Florence
Died in London
Leo Tolstoy
Literature
Born in Yasnaya Polyana
Died in Astapovo

World Events During Their Overlap

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
1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa
1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage
1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens
1898 Spanish-American War
1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight
1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

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Sources

  1. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  2. Florence Nightingale (Q37103) — Wikidata
  3. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  4. Leo Tolstoy (Q7243) — Wikidata