Frank Lloyd Wright & Mahatma Gandhi

Did Frank Lloyd Wright and Mahatma Gandhi live at the same time?

Yes. Frank Lloyd Wright and Mahatma Gandhi lived at the same time for 79 years, from 1869 to 1948.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Frank Lloyd Wright · Mahatma Gandhi · Born in 1867 · Born in 1869

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect of Fallingwater

Mahatma Gandhi

Politics & Leadership

Nonviolent independence leader of India

18671959

Frank Lloyd Wright

Mahatma Gandhi

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art

Born in Richland Center

Died in Phoenix

Mahatma Gandhi

Politics & Leadership

Born in Porbandar

Died in Gandhi Smriti

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

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

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Sources

Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
Frank Lloyd Wright (Q5604) — Wikidata
Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
Mahatma Gandhi (Q1001) — Wikidata