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Otto von Bismarck & Queen Victoria

Did Otto von Bismarck and Queen Victoria live at the same time?

Yes. Otto von Bismarck and Queen Victoria lived at the same time for 79 years, from 1819 to 1898.[1][2][3][4]

Otto von Bismarck · Queen Victoria · Born in 1815 · Born in 1819

Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
1815–1898
Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
1819–1901
Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
18151901
Otto von Bismarck
Queen Victoria
Otto von Bismarck
Politics & Leadership
Born in Schönhausen (Elbe)
Died in Friedrichsruh
Queen Victoria
Politics & Leadership
Born in Kensington Palace
Died in Osborne House

World Events During Their Overlap

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
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

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Sources

  1. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  2. Otto von Bismarck (Q8442) — Wikidata
  3. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  4. Queen Victoria (Q9439) — Wikidata