When was Jules Verne born and when did they die?

Jules Verne was born in 1828 and died in 1905, living to about 77 years old.

What was Jules Verne known for?

Jules Verne was known for: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Who was alive at the same time as Jules Verne?

Jules Verne's closest contemporary was Susan B. Anthony, with whom they shared 77 years of overlapping lifetimes. Explore more contemporaries on Timeliner.

Jules Verne

1828 – 1905

Literature

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Contemporaries

Their World

Global Events

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

1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight

1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

In Their Field

1847 Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre

1851 Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick

1862 Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables

1866 Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment

1869 Tolstoy publishes War and Peace

1884 Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1899 Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness