Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Catherine the Great |
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Birthdate | May 02, 1729 |
Birth Place | Szczecin, Poland |
Age (in 2024) | 295 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Empress |
Catherine the Great is best known as Empress who has born on May 02, 1729 in Szczecin, Poland. Currently, Catherine the Great is 295 years, 6 months and 19 days old. Catherine the Great will celebrate 296th birthday on Friday, 2nd of May 2025. Below the countdown to Catherine the Great upcoming birthday.
Enlightened Empress of Russia who was the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 to 1796. She helped Russia become one of the great powers of Europe and she expanded her country through military wars and diplomacy.
Although her family was royalty, they had little actual money.
Despite being a female ruler in a time where those were looked down upon, her reign saw Russia's territory expand vastly through victories in the Crimean Khanate and over the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish wars.
Her cousins, Gustav III and Charles XIII, became the Kings of Sweden. She had four children with Petter III of Russia, whom she was married to from 1745 until 1762.
She made a lot of reforms to bring her country up to modern times, just like Queen Elizabeth II.
Catherine the Great is 295 years old today.
Catherine the Great was born on May 02, 1729 in Szczecin, Poland.
Catherine the Great zodiac sign is Taurus.
Catherine the Great was best known as Empress.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Catherine the Great's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Catherine the Great's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1972 | In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers. |
1982 | Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. |
1986 | Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster. |
1989 | Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect. |
1995 | During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians. |
1998 | The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy. |
1999 | Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. |
2000 | President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. |
2004 | The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd. |
2008 | Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. |
2008 | Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people. |
2011 | Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. |
2011 | An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others are taken ill. |
2012 | A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction. |
2014 | Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing. |
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1989 | The birth of Jeanette Pohlen, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Kay Panabaker, American actress |
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1991 | The birth of Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer |
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1992 | The birth of María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist |
1993 | The birth of Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer |
1993 | The birth of Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper |
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1996 | The birth of Julian Brandt, German footballer |
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2013 | The death of Dvora Omer, Israeli author and educator (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980) |
2013 | The death of Charles Banks Wilson, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Žarko Petan, Slovenian director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Stuart Archer, English colonel and architect (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Ruth Rendell, English author (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman, activist, and Black Panther (b. 1947) |
2020 | The death of Arif Wazir, Pakistani politician, leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (b. 1982) |
2021 | The death of Marcel Stellman, Belgian record producer and lyricist (b. 1925) |
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