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Bob Gruen; Distributed by Capitol Records · Public domain
Figure Liverpool / New York artist

John Lennon

1940 CE – 1980 CE · 40 years

The story of the Liverpool boy who led the greatest band in history, broke it apart, and spent his final decade fighting for peace with a piano and a bed in Amsterdam.

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On the record: John Lennon

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John Lennon on Wikipedia.

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Running at the same time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Figure · Serbia / United States

Nikola Tesla

1856 CE – 1943 CE

Polity

Xinjiang

Founded 1914 CE · attested to 1945 CE

Conflict

Indonesian National Revolution

1945 CE – 1949 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Figure · India

Rabindranath Tagore

1861 CE – 1941 CE

Polity

USSR

1920 CE – 1991 CE

Landmark

Pamir Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1940 CE and 1980 CE.

1945 CE Indonesian National Revolution 1940 CE Franco-Thai War 1940 CE Battle of Britain 1941 CE Continuation War 1941 CE Anglo-Iraqi War 1941 CE Ecuadorian-Peruvian War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Parícutin Volcano Landmark · Americas 1943 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE World War II Conflict · Europe 1939 CE – 1945 CE Darvaza Gas Crater Landmark · Middle East 1971 CE – still standing China Polity · East Asia Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Alive at the same time

Overlap Same years; not influence

Image credits 9 pictures from Wikimedia Commons