About the day » Tuesday April 19, 1774Calender converter

• Adriana Bogaerts, Zoersel, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1855)
• Cornelis Laurensz Obdam, Oegstgeest († 1849)
• Anne PINIER, Chambon, 37290, France
• Annegien Schutterop, Odoorn († 1844)
• Barbara Garver Newcomer, Beaver Creek, Washington County, MD
• Eva Petronella Aerts, Swolgen († 1777)
• Cornelis Laurensz Opdam, Oegstgeest († 1849)
• Aaltje Egbers, Mijdrecht
• Alexis Dubois de Courval († 1822)
• Anna Maria Cools, Geel, België († 1854)

• Jakob Irle (83), Hatzfeld, Kreis Frankenberg
• Albert Peggeman, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Pieters Peggeman (56), Hoogeveen
• Godefridus Borgerhof (72), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Grietje Harms Mulder, Zwartsluis
• Klaas Jans Mennink (50)
• Antje Braam (7), Koudekerk
• Cornelius VAN EEGHEM (36), Beernem,,BELGIE
• Gerrit Maartense Kool (39)
• Klaas Jans Mennink (50)

• 1721 » Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician († 1793)
• 1734 » Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian violinist and composer († 1786)
• 1757 » Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician († 1833)
• 1758 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral († 1831)
• 1785 » Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer († 1858)
• 1787 » Deaf Smith, American soldier († 1837)
• 1793 » Ferdinand I of Austria († 1875)
• 1806 » Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer († 1889)
• 1814 » Louis Amédée Achard, French journalist and author († 1875)
• 1832 » José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1916)

• 1733 » Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (b. 1657)
• 1739 » Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
• 1768 » Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
• 1776 » Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (b. 1697)
• 1791 » Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)
• 1824 » Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
• 1831 » Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
• 1833 » James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)
• 1840 » Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)

1. Jan
2. Cornelis
3. Johannes
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Gerrit
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Dirk
12. Jacobus
13. Jean
14. John
15. Adrianus
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Aaltje
13. Antje
14. Elizabeth
15. Adriana
16. Jannetje

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
• June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
• July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
• August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.

The temperature on April 19, 1774 was about 8.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: hagel regen.