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Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria

Did Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria live at the same time?

Yes. Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria lived at the same time for 81 years, from 1820 to 1901.[1][2][3][4]

Florence Nightingale · Queen Victoria · Born in 1820 · Born in 1819

Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1820–1910
Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
1819–1901
Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
18191910
Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria
Florence Nightingale
Activism & Social Change
Born in Florence
Died in London
Queen Victoria
Politics & Leadership
Born in Kensington Palace
Died in Osborne House

World Events During Their Overlap

1825 First public railway opens in England
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
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

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Sources

  1. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  2. Florence Nightingale (Q37103) — Wikidata
  3. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  4. Queen Victoria (Q9439) — Wikidata