Which came first? · Counterintuitive
Which came first: Brasília or Fahrenheit 451?
Fahrenheit 451 came first, in 1953 (published). Brasília followed 7 years later, in 1960 (inaugurated).
- Second1960
Brasília
city · inauguratedBrasília was built from scratch and became Brazil's capital in 1960.
- First1953
Fahrenheit 451
book · publishedFahrenheit 451 grew out of a novella Ray Bradbury typed in a library basement on a typewriter rented at ten cents per half hour.
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Years from Wikidata, each checked against the item’s English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-18. A year stands for what its label says: a founding, a first patent, a premiere.