20 Events That Surprisingly Happened Simultaneously
History is full of amazing coincidences that make us look at the chronology of events differently. Imagine that in 1977, when the last execution by guillotine took place in France, George Lucas's Star Wars opened a new era of science fiction. What other unexpected parallels does the past hide? Find out about 20 amazing episodes in history that, to the surprise of many, happened simultaneously!
1. The movie "Frozen" was released in 2013, which is the same year that slavery was officially abolished in the state of Mississippi.
2. When the Aztec Empire arose in Central America, Oxford University had already existed for more than two hundred years.
3. Harriet the tortoise, who died in 2006, met Charles Darwin in person.
4. The last mammoths lived at the time when the pyramids were being built in Ancient Egypt.
5. The Chupa Chups lollipop logo was designed by Dali. This happened in 1969.
6. When Nintendo was founded, Jack the Ripper was still roaming the streets of London.
7. The last execution by guillotine took place on September 10, 1977. The next day, the first successful home video game console, the Atari 2600, was released. The line separating the "age of the guillotine" from the "age of video games" is less than a day.
8. Samurai, fax machines and Abraham Lincoln existed at the same time.
9. The last public execution in London could be reached by tube. And in France, you could fly there by plane (1939).
10. Sharks are older than trees and Saturn's rings
11. The Chinese Qing Empire collapsed in 1912, the same year the Titanic sank.
12. Prisoners began arriving at Auschwitz a few days after McDonald's was founded. This was in 1940.
13. The first episode of Doctor Who aired the day after Kennedy was assassinated.
14. Humans and dodo birds coexisted until the 1600s.
15. William Shakespeare and Pocahontas died within a year and a hundred miles of each other.
16. Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Archduke Franz Ferdinand lived in Vienna in 1913.
17. When women in Switzerland got the right to vote in 1971, India already had a woman prime minister.
18. When the last mammoth died, the pine tree - the Bristlecone pine, the oldest tree on Earth - was already 1,000 years old.
19. Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain are the same age? Both ladies were born in 1926.
20. Cleopatra was born closer to the date of the moon landing than to the time of the construction of the pyramids.