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Sun Yat-sen & Thomas Edison

Did Sun Yat-sen and Thomas Edison live at the same time?

Yes. Sun Yat-sen and Thomas Edison lived at the same time for 59 years, from 1866 to 1925.[1][2][3][4]

Sun Yat-sen · Thomas Edison · Born in 1866 · Born in 1847

Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen
1866–1925
Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
1847–1931
Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
18471931
Sun Yat-sen
Thomas Edison
Sun Yat-sen
Politics & Leadership
Born in Cuiheng
Died in Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Thomas Edison
Science & Invention
Born in Milan
Died in West Orange

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

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Sources

  1. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  2. Sun Yat-sen (Q8573) — Wikidata
  3. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  4. Thomas Edison (Q8743) — Wikidata