Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)

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Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)

  • is 1/200 of Age of oldest musical instrument (42,000 y)...more
  • is 1/50 of Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y)...more
  • is 1/50 of Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more
  • is 1/25 of Time since the start of the Bronze Age (5,300 y)...more
  • is 1/10 of Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y)...more
  • is 1/10 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y)...more
  • is 1/4 of Time since the birth of Fibonacci (854 y)...more
  • is 1/2 of Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written (425 y)...more
  • is 1/2 of Time since the birth of Pierre de Fermat (423 y)...more
  • is about as big as Time since the birth of Darwin (215 y)...more
  • is about as big as Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (209 y)...more
  • is 2 x Time since the birth of chemist Rosalind Franklin (104 y)...more
  • is 2.5 x Time since the first Volkswagen Beetle produced (86 y)...more
  • is 2.5 x Period of Uranus's orbit (84 y)...more
  • is 4 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service (54 y)...more
  • is 4 x Time since first email sent (53 y)...more
  • is 4 x Time since the launch of Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004 (53 y)...more
  • is 5 x Time since first IBM Personal Computer launched (43 y)...more

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