About the day » Saturday February 19, 1718Calender converter

• Anna Alden, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1788)
• Hannah, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America († 1780)
• Gertrudis van Wesel, Oostelaar
• Adriana van Asseldonk, Veghel
• Anthonia Wulferse Hoefsloot, Hoogland (U)
• Anna Catharina Cornelis SMEERPONT, Antwerpen,2000,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
• Anna Engelsdr. Verdel, Oegstgeest
• Anna-Maria Petri Adriani van Heeswijck, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant
• Elisabeth Verstegen, Beek († 1811)
• Esther Susanne Marie de Jaussaud († 1779)

• Anna Jacobse (Anna Jacob Jans) Talboom (26), Groot Zundert
• Hans Jerg Lorentz (64), Korbtal (Remstal)
• Dimphna Pinxten, Tongerlo (Limb.)
• Benjamin Holman (0), Drewsteignton, Devon, England
• Gerrit Weernink, Borculo
• Anna Jacob Talboom (26), Gr. Zundert (NL)
• Jacques Goguet, Rivière-des-Prairies, Quebec, Canada
• Arend van Swet (51)
• Cornelia DE BUSSCHERE (24), Maldegem, Province de Flandre Orientale, Région Flamande, Belgique
• Hendrik Sigismund Vrijheer Schirndinger van Schirnding (68)

• 1611 » Andries de Graeff, Dutch politician († 1678)
• 1630 » Shivaji, Indian warrior-king and the founder of Maratha Empire
• 1660 » Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist († 1742)
• 1717 » David Garrick, English actor, playwright, and producer († 1779)
• 1743 » Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer († 1805)
• 1798 » Allan MacNab, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, Premier of Canada West († 1862)
• 1800 » Émilie Gamelin, Canadian nun and social worker, founded the Sisters of Providence († 1851)
• 1804 » Carl von Rokitansky, German physician, pathologist, and philosopher († 1878)
• 1821 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic († 1868)
• 1833 » Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1906)

• 1602 » Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (b. 1558)
• 1605 » Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)
• 1622 » Henry Savile, English scholar and politician (b. 1549)
• 1672 » Charles Chauncy, English-American minister, theologian, and academic (b. 1592)
• 1709 » Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1646)
• 1716 » Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1634)
• 1785 » Mary, Countess of Harold, English aristocrat and philanthropist (b. 1701)
• 1789 » Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (b. 1738)
• 1799 » Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (b. 1733)
• 1806 » Elizabeth Carter, English poet and translator (b. 1717)

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• May 7 » The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
• May 15 » James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
• June 26 » Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
• July 21 » The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
• November 30 » King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
• December 17 » War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.

The temperature on February 19, 1718 was about 5.0 °C.