Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Mary Seacole |
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Birthdate | November 23, 1805 |
Birth Place | Kingston, Jamaica |
Age (in 2024) | 218 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Memoirist |
Mary Seacole is best known as Memoirist who has born on November 23, 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica. Currently, Mary Seacole is 218 years, 11 months and 24 days old. Mary Seacole will celebrate 219th birthday on Saturday, 23rd of November 2024. Below the countdown to Mary Seacole upcoming birthday.
Remembered for her 1857 memoir Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, this Jamaican-born writer and nurse assisted soldiers during the Crimean War and fought for racial tolerance by openly celebrating her multi-ethnic heritage.
She first traveled from her native Jamaica in the early 1820s, living in England for a year and doing her best to combat the racial prejudice she encountered there.
During the Crimean War, she traveled overseas and established a medical and rest facility in Crimea (modern-day Ukraine) known as the British Hotel.
The child of a Scottish military man and a Jamaican medicine woman, she was born Mary Jane Grant and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1830s, she married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole.
She and Florence Nightingale both nursed soldiers wounded in the Crimean War.
Mary Seacole is 218 years old today.
Mary Seacole was born on November 23, 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica.
Mary Seacole zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Mary Seacole was best known as Memoirist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Mary Seacole's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Mary Seacole's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1991 | Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day. |
1992 | The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
1996 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125. |
2001 | The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. |
2003 | Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. |
2004 | The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated. |
2005 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. |
2006 | A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. |
2007 | MSÂ Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities. |
2009 | The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines; 58 opponents of Andal Ampatuan Jr. are kidnapped and killed. |
2010 | Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. |
2011 | Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity. |
2015 | Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing. |
2018 | Founders of Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana issue an apology following a series of offensive advertisements on social media promoting a fashion show in Shanghai, China, which was canceled. |
2019 | The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country. |
1984 | The birth of Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer |
1984 | The birth of Justin Turner, American baseball player |
1985 | The birth of Viktor An, South Korean speed skater |
1987 | The birth of Nicklas BÀckström, Swedish ice hockey player |
1987 | The birth of Snooki, American reality television personality |
1990 | The birth of Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1990 | The birth of Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater |
1990 | The birth of Christopher Quiring, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress |
1992 | The birth of Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Wes Burns, Welsh footballer |
1995 | The birth of Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer |
2013 | The death of Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916) |
2014 | The death of Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1980) |
2015 | The death of Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Rita BarberĂĄ Nolla, Spanish politician (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Joe Esposito, road manager for Elvis Presley (b. 1938) |
2017 | The death of Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (b. 1935) |
2020 | The death of Tarun Gogoi, Indian Chief Minister of Assam (b. 1934) |
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