✦ Time paradoxes · Still around
St Petersburg: 1703; Isaac Newton: 1643–1727 — that is 24 years later.
When St Petersburg was founded, Isaac Newton was still alive.
Who and what
- Founding of Saint Petersburg1703 · Saint Petersburg. Peter the Great founds a new capital, a window on Europe
- Isaac Newton1643–1727 · English physicist and mathematician
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