Amazing Date comparisons in History that make you look at Time from a Different Perspective

11 Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud, and Joseph Stalin all lived in Vienna in January 1913

An unusual date comparison happened In January 1913, Sigmund Freud was an established psychoanalyst who was living and practicing on the city’s Berggasse. Simultaneously Marshal Tito was working at the Daimler automobile factory in Wiener Neustadt a town in Vienna. Stalin and Trotsky were on the run and sought refuge in Vienna. Adolf Hitler at the time was living in a doss-house in Meldermannstrasse near the Danube after being twice rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts where he wanted to study painting.

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12 Oxford University is older than Machu Picchu

Machu Pichu is a 15th century Inca citadel located 7,790 feet above sea level on a mountain ridge in Peru. But, regardless of how old it is, Oxford University is older than that having been established in 1096 and is the oldest university in operation.

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13 Irish Neolithic burial sites, such as Newgrange, predate the Egyptian Pyramids by about 500 years

Ancient history is synonymous with the pyramids of Egypt. When you think old you think of Pharaohs with goatees and the Sphinx but what’s even older than these is a prehistoric burial site in Ireland. The pyramids of Djoser were constructed between 2630 and 2611 BC. The Irish Neolithic burial site at Newgrange was built around 3200 BC at the time of the Neolithic age.

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14 France was still using the guillotine when the first Star Wars came out

Among date comparisons this is weird? Even as the world celebrated one of its most iconic movies suggestive of how much technology has advanced in movie making, France was still using a contraption of the dark ages, The Guillotine. Star Wars was released in 1977. During that time the Guillotine was still the method of execution in France but what’s interesting is the fact that it was on the day Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope premiered in France that the country put an end to the bizarre practice.

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