How long ago was Antonín Dvořák born?
185 years ago.
One lifetime. A world of change.
Drag through the world since his birth.
The world between then and now
1841–2026 one continuous scaleAntonín Dvořák’s life1841–1904 · 122 years since his death
1893
The New World Symphony reaches its first audience
The New York Philharmonic introduces Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, first at a public rehearsal and then in concert.
Carnegie Hall ↗1914
The First World War begins
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Further declarations of war follow in August.
National WWI Museum and Memorial ↗1969
Humans land on the Moon
Apollo 11 brings Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface.
NASA ↗1989
A proposal for the World Wide Web
At CERN, Tim Berners-Lee proposes the system that becomes the World Wide Web. This is a milestone for the Web, not the beginning of the Internet.
CERN ↗2007
The first iPhone is introduced
Apple introduces the original iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco. This marks its announcement, not its later arrival in shops.
Apple ↗Between landmarks
Feel the distance.
Keep moving to explore another moment. The spaces between the markers are years, too.
Today
185 years brought us here.
The whole line measures the distance from Antonín Dvořák’s birth to the present year.
Antonín Dvořák was born in 1841. Drag through the line above: each drawing marks a moment between his birth and today, and its card says what happened and where the date comes from.
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