George Bernard Shaw & Rabindranath Tagore

Did George Bernard Shaw and Rabindranath Tagore live at the same time?

Yes. George Bernard Shaw and Rabindranath Tagore lived at the same time for 80 years, from 1861 to 1941.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

George Bernard Shaw · Rabindranath Tagore · Born in 1856 · Born in 1861

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright of Pygmalion

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature

18561950

George Bernard Shaw

Rabindranath Tagore

George Bernard Shaw

Literature

Born in Dublin

Died in Ayot St Lawrence

Rabindranath Tagore

Literature

Born in Kolkata

Died in Kolkata

World Events During Their Overlap

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

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

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