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According to Einstein, time is relative, and it can be surprising to discover certain historical events happening simultaneously. For instance, the final guillotine execution during the French Revolution occurred in 1977, coinciding with the release of George Lucas’ highly acclaimed Star Wars movies.
1 *Frozen* came out the same year Mississippi officially abolished slavery.
2 My favourite that I’ve seen: When Harvard opened, they didn’t have calculus classes because *calculus hadn’t been invented yet.*
3 Oxford University celebrated its 200th graduating class by the time the Aztec Empire started in Central America.
4 The last execution by guillotine occurred on September 10th, 1977.
The Atari 2600, the first successful home video game console, released the very next day. In a sense, the boundary separating the “era of guillotines” and the “era of video games” is less than 24 hours. It’s basically a fine line with no overlap.
6 In 1922, Betty White and the Ottoman Empire both existed.
7 The last mammoths lived at the time the pyramids were under construction.
8 I watched the first moon landing with a woman who’d been in Paris for Lindbergh’s first transcontinental flight landing.
Edit: wow this blew up! And my first award!! Trippy, thanks—and I owe it all to Mrs. B.
9 Nintendo was founded when Jack the Ripper was roaming the streets of London.
Women in Switzerland got right to vote in 1971 when India was already having a woman prime minister !
11 The Qing Dynasty of China collapsed in 1912, the same year as the Titanic disaster.
12 William Shakespeare and Pocahontas were alive at the same time.
13 Pablo Picasso died the same year Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” was released.
14 The Titanic maiden voyage happened the same year as MDMA was created.
15 The last surviving witness to the Lincoln assassination appeared on the TV game show *I’ve Got a Secret* several weeks before his death in 1954.
16 Dmitri Shostakovich (major Russian composer who became huge in the 1920s) attended a performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” in London, 1975. He actually loved it and watched it again the next day, claiming he wished he could’ve written something for a rock band
17 Samurai, the fax machine, and Abraham Lincoln all existed at the same time
18 I always found it strange that Victorian England and the Wild West happened at the same time.
19 Dali designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo.
20 Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as both Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan.
21 Orville Wright of the Wright brothers lived long enough to see Chuck Yaeger break the sound barrier and travel on an airliner that had a wingspan equal to the distance he covered in his first flight (37m)
