✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Constantinople founded: 330; Fall of Constantinople: 1453; Gagarin's flight: 1961 — 1,123 years between the first two, 508 years between the last two.
The fall of Constantinople is closer in time to Gagarin's spaceflight than to the founding of Constantinople.
Who and what
- Founding of Constantinople330 · Byzantium. Constantine moves the capital to the Bosporus for 1,000 years
- Fall of Constantinople1453 · Constantinople. The Ottomans end the thousand-year Byzantine Empire
- Gagarin's flight1961 · Baikonur. The first human in space circles the Earth
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