Abraham Lincoln & James Clerk Maxwell

Did Abraham Lincoln and James Clerk Maxwell live at the same time?

Yes. Abraham Lincoln and James Clerk Maxwell lived at the same time for 34 years, from 1831 to 1865.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Abraham Lincoln · James Clerk Maxwell · Born in 1809 · Born in 1831

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Politics & Leadership

16th US President, ended slavery

James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

Science & Invention

Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism

18091879

Abraham Lincoln

James Clerk Maxwell

Abraham Lincoln

Politics & Leadership

Born in Hodgenville

Died in Washington, D.C.

James Clerk Maxwell

Science & Invention

Born in Edinburgh

Died in Cambridge

World Events During Their Overlap

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

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Sources

Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
Abraham Lincoln (Q91) — Wikidata
James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
James Clerk Maxwell (Q9095) — Wikidata