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Herodotus (c. 484-425 B.C.), as the first historian proper, is called the father of history. He was born in the essentially Dorian (Greek) colony of Halicarnassus on the southwest coast of Asia Minor (then a part of the Persian Empire), during the Persian Wars, shortly before the expedition against Greece led by the Persian King Xerxes.
Definition of historical. 1  1a : of, relating to, or having the character of history historical datab : based on history historical novelsc : used in the past and reproduced in historical presentations. 2  2 : famous in history : historic a. 3  3a : secondary 1cb : diachronic historical grammar.