About the day » Thursday December 8, 1712Calender converter

• Johannes Visser, Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius van de Laar, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Joannes Quaetvlieg, Valkenburg (L)
• Katharina Barbara Wern, Fürth, Ottweiler, Neunkirchen, Saarland, Deutschland († 1781)
• Abram van der Meer, Bergschenhoek
• Judocus Josephus DE MEULEMEESTER, Rozebeke,9630,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1772)
• Isaac van der Meer, Bergschenhoek
• Cornelis Brouwer, Zutphen
• Grietje Jans (Gerrigje) Vos, Hattem
• Johanna Moralla Elisabeth van Cattenburg († 1737)

• Anna Margarete Cressmann (63), Pfungstadt, Allemagne
• Jacobus Camoen (60), Sint Gillis Waas (B)
• Maria Alberts (62), Asperden, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Ingetje Crijnen Pors (54), Barendrecht
• Hermanus Selissen, Puth-Schinnen (Beekdaelen), Limburg, Nederland
• Harm Jacobs Drock (Drok (47), Veendam, Nederland, Groningen, Nederland
• Hermanus ZELISSEN CELISSEN SELISSEN (67), Schinnen (NL/LI)
• Elisabeth Schäfer (79), Dodenau, Kreis Frankenberg
• Jacobus Camoen (60), Sint-Gillis-Waas
• Pietertje Hendricks GOUW (22)

• 1678 » Antonio de Benavides, colonial governor of Florida († 1762)
• 1678 » Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, English politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to France († 1757)
• 1699 » Maria Josepha of Austria († 1757)
• 1708 » Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor († 1765)
• 1724 » Claude Balbastre, French organist and composer († 1799)
• 1730 » Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist († 1799)
• 1731 » František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist and composer († 1799)
• 1756 » Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria († 1801)
• 1765 » Eli Whitney, American engineer, invented the cotton gin († 1825)
• 1795 » Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician († 1874)

• 1680 » Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English lawyer and politician (b. 1606)
• 1691 » Richard Baxter, English minister, poet, and hymn-writer (b. 1615)
• 1695 » Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist and academic (b. 1625)
• 1709 » Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (b. 1625)
• 1722 » Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (b. 1652)
• 1744 » Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
• 1745 » Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist and academic (b. 1683)
• 1746 » Charles Radclyffe, English courtier and soldier (b. 1693)
• 1756 » William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1690)
• 1768 » Jean Denis Attiret, French painter and missionary (b. 1702)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• February 10 » Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
• February 29 » February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
• April 6 » The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
• July 31 » Action of 31 July 1712 (Great Northern War): Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea; the result is inconclusive.
• August 17 » Action of 17 August 1712 New Deep naval battle between Denmark and Sweden.
• October 3 » The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

The temperature on December 8, 1712 was about 5.0 °C.