The opening of the Eiffel Tower
The opening of the Eiffel Tower
The facts
| Dates | AD 1889 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The opening of the Eiffel Tower falls 5893 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graha BellAD 1876Thomas Edison invents the phonographAD 1877The invention of the light bulb by Thomas EdisonAD 1879The introduction of the Kodak cameraAD 1888The discovery of radioactivity by Marie CurieAD 1898The invention of the airplane by the Wright BrothersAD 1903The sinking of the TitanicAD 1912The start of commercial radio broA.D.castingAD 1920
Now see where it sits
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