Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Charles Dickens |
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Birthdate | February 07, 1812 |
Birth Place | Hampshire, England |
Age (in 2024) | 212 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Charles Dickens is best known as Novelist who has born on February 07, 1812 in Hampshire, England. Currently, Charles Dickens is 212 years, 8 months and 24 days old. Charles Dickens will celebrate 213th birthday on Friday, 7th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Charles Dickens upcoming birthday.
Renowned 19th-century English author whose best known works include Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and A Christmas Carol. He created some of the most memorable characters in fiction, became known for his acute social satire, and is generally considered to be the most significant novelist of the Victorian era.
He left school at a young age to work in a factory, due to his father's imprisonment in the debtors' jail. He quickly overcame his family history and, by the time he published his first serial, The Pickwick Papers (in 1836), he was well on his way to international literary fame.
In works like A Tale of Two Cities, he advocated for social reform by depicting the disparity between rich and poor.
He was one of eight children born to John and Elizabeth Dickens on Portsea Island, off the coast of England. He married Catherine Thomson Hogarth in April of 1836 following a one-year engagement. He had a total of ten children.
His novel Oliver Twist was adapted into a play starring celebrated child actor Dickie Moore.
Charles Dickens is 212 years old today.
Charles Dickens was born on February 07, 1812 in Hampshire, England.
Charles Dickens zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Charles Dickens was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Charles Dickens's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1984 | Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). |
1986 | Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation. |
1990 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power. |
1991 | Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. |
1991 | The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government. |
1992 | The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union. |
1995 | Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. |
1999 | Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. |
2001 | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-98, carrying the Destiny laboratory module to the International Space Station. |
2009 | Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history. |
2012 | President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of the Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military. |
2013 | The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. |
2014 | Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa. |
2016 | North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world. |
2021 | The 2021 Uttarakhand flood begins. |
1989 | The birth of Elia Viviani, Italian cyclist |
1990 | The birth of Jacksepticeye, Irish YouTuber |
1990 | The birth of Gianluca Lapadula, Italian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Dalilah Muhammad, American hurdler |
1990 | The birth of Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Ryan O'Reilly, Canadian ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Sergi Roberto, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Ksenia Stolbova, Russian figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer and actress |
1993 | The birth of Chris Mears, English diver |
1994 | The birth of Riley Barber, American ice hockey player |
1995 | The birth of Roberto Osuna, Mexican baseball player |
1996 | The birth of Pierre Gasly, French racing driver |
1997 | The birth of Nicolò Barella, Italian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Anhelina Kalinina, Ukrainian tennis player |
2012 | The death of Harry Keough, American soccer player and coach (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Krsto Papić, Croatian director and screenwriter (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Doug Mohns, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Billy Casper, American golfer (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of John C. Whitehead, American banker and politician, 9th United States Deputy Secretary of State (b. 1922) |
2017 | The death of Richard Hatch, American actor (b. 1945) |
2017 | The death of Hans Rosling, Swedish academic (b. 1948) |
2017 | The death of Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian philosopher (b. 1939) |
2019 | The death of John Dingell, American politician (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Albert Finney, English actor (b. 1936) |
2019 | The death of Jan Olszewski, Polish politician, 3rd Prime Minister (b. 1930) |
2019 | The death of Frank Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1935) |
2020 | The death of Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist who initially warned about COVID-19 (b. 1986) |
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