George Bernard Shaw & Nikola Tesla

Did George Bernard Shaw and Nikola Tesla live at the same time?

Yes. George Bernard Shaw and Nikola Tesla lived at the same time for 87 years, from 1856 to 1943.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

George Bernard Shaw · Nikola Tesla · Born in 1856

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright of Pygmalion

Nikola Tesla

Science & Invention

AC electricity, visionary inventor

18561950

George Bernard Shaw

Nikola Tesla

George Bernard Shaw

Literature

Born in Dublin

Died in Ayot St Lawrence

Nikola Tesla

Science & Invention

Born in Smiljan

Died in New York City

World Events During Their Overlap

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

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles signed

1920 League of Nations established

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

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Sources

George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw (Q19185) — Wikidata
Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
Nikola Tesla (Q9036) — Wikidata