11 Unbelievable Historical Events That Happened at the Same Time
Weird historical facts that will mess with your idea of time.
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6 min readMar 3, 2022
Several months apart in 2014, two independent Internet users posted roughly the same question on Internet.
What are some historical events that you never would’ve imagined happened around the same time?
The response was overwhelming, with about 15,000 responses in total. A well-known blogger linked to both posts, and the debate quickly expanded.
Those events which happened during the same period are mentioned below:
1. NASA Was Surveying Space by the Time Scientists Could Agree on Plate Tectonics (1965)
Alfred Wegener, to his credit, proposed his idea of scientific theory in 1912. However, the scientific world essentially mocked him off the map, and it wasn’t until the publishing of two articles.
One in 1965 and one in 1967, the concept of tectonic plates was developed and widely accepted.
