Updated at December 18, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William H. Prescott |
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Birthdate | May 04, 1796 |
Birth Place | Groton, MA |
Age (in 2024) | 228 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Historian |
William H. Prescott is best known as Historian who has born on May 04, 1796 in Groton, MA. Currently, William H. Prescott is 228 years, 7 months and 14 days old. William H. Prescott will celebrate 229th birthday on Sunday, 4th of May 2025. Below the countdown to William H. Prescott upcoming birthday.
Nineteenth-century American historian and author whose most famous works include The History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (1837). His works focus primarily on Hispanic military and political history.
He began studying at Harvard when he was just fifteen years old. He commenced research for his first major work, The History of Ferdinand and Isabella, in the mid 1820s.
He is known as the first American scientific historian.
He and his wife, Susan Amory Prescott, had four children. Their first daughter, Catherine, died at the age of five, and their son, William Gardiner Prescott, studied at Harvard and became a Boston-based attorney.
Like Prescott, Francis Van Wyck Mason was also a historian from Massachusetts.
William H. Prescott is 228 years old today.
William H. Prescott was born on May 04, 1796 in Groton, MA.
William H. Prescott zodiac sign is Taurus.
William H. Prescott was best known as Historian.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William H. Prescott's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1972 | The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". |
1973 | The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. |
1978 | The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people. |
1979 | Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
1982 | Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. |
1988 | The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire. |
1989 | Iran-Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal. |
1990 | Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union. |
1994 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. |
1998 | A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. |
2000 | Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London). |
2002 | One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria. |
2007 | Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale. |
2014 | Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya. |
2019 | The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion. |
1989 | The birth of Henna Lindholm, Finnish figure skater |
1989 | The birth of Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer |
1989 | The birth of Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player |
1989 | The birth of James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Irina Falconi, American tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver |
1990 | The birth of Andrea Torres, Filipino actress and model |
1991 | The birth of Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Victor Oladipo, American basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1994 | The birth of Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist |
1997 | The birth of Max King, Australian rugby league player |
2013 | The death of Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (b. 1983) |
2014 | The death of Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Ross Lonsberry, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of William Bast, American screenwriter and author (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913) |
2015 | The death of Marv Hubbard, American football player (b. 1946) |
2016 | The death of Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (b. 1946) |
2020 | The death of Don Shula, American football player and coach (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Greg Zanis, American carpenter and activist (b. 1950) |
2021 | The death of Nick Kamen, English model, songwriter (b. 1962) |
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