Home / Birthday profiles / Ned Hanlan
Portrait of Ned Hanlan

Birthday profile

Ned Hanlan

Ned Hanlan, Canadian rower, academic, and businessman (died 1908)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
July 12, 1855
Died
January 4, 1908
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1855

About Ned Hanlan

Edward "Ned" Hanlan was a Canadian professional sculler, hotelier, and alderman from Toronto, Ontario. He was the world sculling champion from 1880 to 1884. According to Rowing Canada Aviron, Hanlan is "widely regarded as Canada’s first individual sporting hero." According to Rowing Canada Aviron, Hanlan is "widely regarded as Canada’s first individual sporting hero." Hanlan was born to Irish parents; one of two sons and two daughters. By the time Hanlan was a teenager, he was competing in rowing events and he gained his first important success at the age of eighteen, when he became amateur champion of Toronto Bay. In 1877 he became champion sculler of Canada, followed by Champion sculler of the United States in 1878.

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

Career and life highlights

Ned Hanlan timeline

  1. In 1877 he became champion sculler of Canada, followed by Champion sculler of the United States in 1878.
  2. He was the world sculling champion from 1880 to 1884.

The world when Ned Hanlan was born

Ned Hanlan was born in 1855. 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.

Culture in 1855

  • Best-selling bookLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineBleeding Kansas — pro and anti-slavery violence
  • Technology milestoneBessemer steel process invented
  • World population~1.35B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderFranklin Pierce
  • U.S. population26.4M

1855 versus 2026

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

Measure18552026
Population26.4M341 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.