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James Joyce & Rabindranath Tagore

Did James Joyce and Rabindranath Tagore live at the same time?

Yes. James Joyce and Rabindranath Tagore lived at the same time for 59 years, from 1882 to 1941.[1][2][3][4]

James Joyce · Rabindranath Tagore · Born in 1882 · Born in 1861

James Joyce
James Joyce
1882–1941
Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941
Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
18611941
James Joyce
Rabindranath Tagore
James Joyce
Literature
Born in Rathgar
Died in Zurich
Rabindranath Tagore
Literature
Born in Kolkata
Died in Kolkata

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

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Sources

  1. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  2. James Joyce (Q6882) — Wikidata
  3. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  4. Rabindranath Tagore (Q7241) — Wikidata