If you or someone around you has said the phrase: “I can’t believe its 2025” or something along the lines of how time moves, make sure to direct them to this. Here are some of history’s wild time line coincidences that will show just how wild the passage of time is.
Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids of Giza
Yep. You might think that Cleopatra, who died around 30 BC, is ancient history, but she was born more than 2000 years after Giza’s three main pyramids were finished. That means that she was alive closer to the moon landing in 1969 than she was to the iconic buildings of her country.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire
You no doubt already knew that Oxford is one of the oldest university in the known world, but did you know that it is older than the Aztec Empire? You might think that the Aztecs are ancient history, but the empire actually dates to around 1325, while Oxford University was accepting students in 1096. That means people were graduating before the Aztec Empire was established.
Coca Cola is older than the Eiffel Tower
By three years to be exact. De John Pemberton sold the first ever glass of Coca Cola at a pharmacy in Atlanta for 5 cents in 1886. Construction on the Eiffel Tower wasn’t completed until 1889, three years later!
Wooly Mammoths still existed when the pyramids were being built
We might assume that Wooly Mammoths died out with the dinosaurs, but actually, there is evidence to suggest that there were mammoths in parts of the arctic around 4000 years ago – centuries after they build the pyramids.
You could catch the tube to watch executions in London
The last public hanging took place in London in 1868 – the London Underground was already in existence, so to get to the hanging at Newgate Prison, you just needed to get the Metropolitan Line to Farringdon Station, a line that had been running for five years at that point.
Speaking of executions, did you know that Star Wars was playing in cinemas in the same year that France carried out its final execution by guillotine. The last one took place in 1977.
The Great Wall of China was completed after the invention of the telephone.
The Great Wall of China was built between the 3rd and 17th centuries, eventually measuring 13,171 miles and is one of the world’s most famous structures. However, two years before it was finished, Alexander Graham Bell had invented the telephone and made the world’s first phone call.
Jack the Ripper and Nintendo existed at the same time.
You might associate Nintendo with the nineties and Jack the Ripper with the 1880s, but actually Nintendo was founded in Japan in 1889, initially producing handmade playing cards – that was just a year after Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror and the case was still active.
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