Albert Einstein & Helen Keller

Did Albert Einstein and Helen Keller live at the same time?

Yes. Albert Einstein and Helen Keller lived at the same time for 75 years, from 1880 to 1955.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Albert Einstein · Helen Keller · Born in 1879 · Born in 1880

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Science & Invention

Theory of relativity, E=mc²

Helen Keller

Activism & Social Change

Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life

18791968

Albert Einstein

Helen Keller

Albert Einstein

Science & Invention

Born in Ulm

Died in Princeton

Helen Keller

Activism & Social Change

Born in Tuscumbia

Died in Easton

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

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

1947 India and Pakistan gain independence

1948 State of Israel established

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed

1950 Korean War begins

1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Sources

Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
Albert Einstein (Q937) — Wikidata
Helen Keller — Wikipedia
Helen Keller (Q38203) — Wikidata