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Rabindranath Tagore & Virginia Woolf

Did Rabindranath Tagore and Virginia Woolf live at the same time?

Yes. Rabindranath Tagore and Virginia Woolf lived at the same time for 59 years, from 1882 to 1941.[1][2][3][4]

Rabindranath Tagore · Virginia Woolf · Born in 1861 · Born in 1882

Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941
Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
1882–1941
Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
18611941
Rabindranath Tagore
Virginia Woolf
Rabindranath Tagore
Literature
Born in Kolkata
Died in Kolkata
Virginia Woolf
Literature
Born in Hyde Park Gate
Died in Lewes

World Events During Their Overlap

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

  1. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  2. Rabindranath Tagore (Q7241) — Wikidata
  3. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  4. Virginia Woolf (Q40909) — Wikidata