H.G. Wells & Henry Ford

Did H.G. Wells and Henry Ford live at the same time?

Yes. H.G. Wells and Henry Ford lived at the same time for 80 years, from 1866 to 1946.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

H.G. Wells · Henry Ford · Born in 1866 · Born in 1863

H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer

Henry Ford

Business & Industry

Assembly line, Model T automobile

18631947

H.G. Wells

Henry Ford

H.G. Wells

Literature

Henry Ford

Business & Industry

Born in Springwells Township

Died in Dearborn

World Events During Their Overlap

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

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

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Sources

H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
H.G. Wells (Q42511) — Wikidata
Henry Ford — Wikipedia
Henry Ford (Q8768) — Wikidata