About the day » Sunday August 2, 1722Calender converter

• Aaltje van der Ree, vlaardingen (zuid holland) († 1778)
• Anna Dutoit († 1793)
• Aaltje Kuvenhoven, Monster, 2681, Nederland
• Ann Rogers, Penshurst, Kent, England († 1802)
• Aaltje Kuivenhoven, Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertien Jans, Hoogeveen
• Aaltje Cornelisd. van der Ree, Vlaardingen
• Anthonij Lambregt, Amersfoort
• Anna van Velsen, Bergschenhoek
• Aeltje Kuijvenhoven, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Johanna Huijsingh (Husing)(Huisink) (34), Sleen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna Sijbilla Juditha Waterlo (0), Düthe, Fresenburg
• Kraft Schneider (0), Richstein, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna de Flo, harlingen (friesland)
• Adriaantie Kleijn (47), Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agata Lange, Den Helder
• Adriaentje Jansdr Kleijn (47), Zwaluwe
• Gijsbert van Jaarsveldt
• Marcelis van Keulen (26), Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Daniel Dreisbach (0), Steinbach, Kreis Wittgenstein

• 1630 » Estephan El Douaihy, Maronite patriarch († 1704)
• 1646 » Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and buccaneer († 1715)
• 1672 » Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar († 1733)
• 1674 » Philippe II, Duke of Orléans († 1723)
• 1696 » Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan († 1754)
• 1702 » Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau († 1769)
• 1703 » Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1775)
• 1740 » Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general († 1817)
• 1754 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. († 1825)
• 1788 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic († 1853)

• 1605 » Richard Leveson, English admiral (b. c. 1570)
• 1611 » Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1562)
• 1667 » Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (b. 1599)
• 1696 » Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (b. 1630)
• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• March 8 » The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
• April 5 » The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
• July 25 » Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.

The temperature on August 2, 1722 was about 17.0 °C.