Home / Birthday profiles / Pancha Carrasco
Portrait of Pancha Carrasco

Birthday profile

Pancha Carrasco

Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (died 1890)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
April 8, 1826
Died
December 31, 1890
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1826

About Pancha Carrasco

Pancha Carrasco, born Francisca Carrasco Jiménez, was Costa Rica's first woman in the military. Carrasco is most famous for joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas in 1856 with a rifle and a pocketful of bullets. The strength and determination she showed there made her a symbol of national pride and she was later honored with a Costa Rican postage stamp, a Coast Guard vessel, and the creation of the "Pancha Carrasco Police Women's Excellence Award". Pancha Carrasco (8 April 1816 – 31 December 1890), born Francisca Carrasco Jiménez, was Costa Rica's first woman in the military.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Pancha Carrasco timeline

  1. Pancha Carrasco (8 April 1816 – 31 December 1890), born Francisca Carrasco Jiménez, was Costa Rica's first woman in the military.
  2. Carrasco is most famous for joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas in 1856 with a rifle and a pocketful of bullets.

The world when Pancha Carrasco was born

Pancha Carrasco was born in 1826. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineJohn Adams and Thomas Jefferson both die on July 4
  • Technology milestoneFirst photograph (heliograph) by Nicéphore Niépce
  • World population~1.06B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderJohn Quincy Adams
  • U.S. population11.3M

1826 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Pancha Carrasco's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18262026
Population11.3M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Library of Congress, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.