Found a great Reddit thread putting historical dates into perspective.

Some gems .

1/ A well travelled man could have met Socrates, Confucius and Buddha. (500-400 BC)

2/ "The moon landing was only 66 years after the first manned aircraft flight (1903-1969). Within a lifetime, mankind went from not having flight technology to sending men 239,000 miles from the Earth."

(Orville Wright & Neil Armstrong were both alive at the same time for 8yrs)

3/ On a related note...Cleopatra (b. 69 BC) lived closer in time to the moon landing (1969) than the construction of the pyramids (~2600 BC)

4/ Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump were all born within the same three-month stretch (June-August 1946).

5/ The city of Boston was founded (1630) while Galileo was still alive and Isaac Newton had yet to be born (1642).

6/ While Hannibal was crossing the Alps into the Roman Empire with attach elephants, the Great Wall of China was in its initial phases of being built.

7/ Oxford University (1096) is older than Machu Picchu (1450), and it's not even close.

8/ Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II were born on the same year (1926)

Here they are meeting at the age of 30

9/ Virginia was founded in 1607 when Shakespeare was still alive.

10/ J. R.R Tolkien (The Lord of The Rings), Otto Frank (The father of Anne Frank), and Adolf Hitler where all present as foot soldiers at the battle of the Somme (1916).

11/ Picasso was born the year of Wyatt Earp's shootout (1881) at the OK Corral and died the year Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon (1973).

12/ If you enjoyed this, smash the R/T or -- even better -- add random "historical dates" nugget in the comments.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/67vkiu/what_are_your_favorite_historical_date/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf