When did Louis Braille defeat darkness?

Technically, he never did. Darkness was the only thing he could see from the age of five. But he wanted to be part of the world so badly that having no idea about what life was like outside France, he invented his own method to see and be seen by society.

Louis Braille was born the same day with Isaac Newton (166 years apart) and the same year with Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. They never met each other but all lived in the same historical landscape.