Home / Birthday profiles / William Crowther (Australian politician)
Portrait of William Crowther (Australian politician)

Birthday profile

William Crowther (Australian politician)

William Crowther, Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (died 1885)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
April 15, 1817
Died
April 12, 1885
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1817

About William Crowther (Australian politician)

William Lodewyk Crowther FRCS (15 April 1817 − 12 April 1885) was a Tasmanian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 20 December 1878 to 29 October 1879. His careers in medicine, politics, and business were overshadowed in modern times by his alleged role in the unsanctioned exhumation and decapitation of William Lanne's body. Lanne was believed to be the last "full-blooded" Aboriginal Tasmanian male and after the exhumation, his skull was sent by Crowther to the Royal College of Surgeons in London for preservation.

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

Career and life highlights

William Crowther (Australian politician) timeline

  1. Born: April 15, 1817
  2. Died: April 12, 1885

The world when William Crowther (Australian politician) was born

William Crowther (Australian politician) was born in 1817. 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 headlineJames Monroe inaugurated as 5th President
  • Technology milestoneFirst bicycle (draisine) invented
  • Defining fadDraisine bicycle craze
  • World population~985M

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderJames Monroe
  • U.S. population8.9M

1817 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in William Crowther (Australian politician)'s birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18172026
Population8.9M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, VIAF, 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.