About the day » Tuesday December 17, 1737Calender converter

• "Joanna" Jenneke Jenneke, Groesbeek
• Isabel SCOTT, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
• Antonetta Selten, Wanroij, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1791)
• Abraham Woolman, Burlington Co, NJ († 1784)
• Joanna Theresia VandenBorre, Wortegem († 1770)
• Jan Taekles de Boer, Dokkum, Friesland, Nederland, Friesland, Nederland († 1783)
• "Anna" Catharina Nijsten, Hoensbroek, Limburg, Nederland († 1769)
• Frederik, Elburg
• Anna Weyma Camerlingh, Steenwijkerwold, Nederland († 1801)
• Anna Nijsten, Hoensbroek (Heerlen), Limburg, Nederland († 1769)

• Cornelia Guillielmi Govaerts (Govarts) (65), Merksplas (B.)
• Cornelia Guillielmi Govaerts (Goeyvaerts) (65), Merksplas (B.)
• Cornelia Guilielm Govaerts (65), Merksplas
• Geerken Nieuwenhuijsen (55), 's-Grevelduin-Cappelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jeanne Henriette Augustine de Fourcy (45)
• Elisabeth DESWILDEN (69), Vaals
• Hermanus, Harmen Scholten, Amsterdam
• Cornelia Guilliemi Govaerts (65), Merksplas
• Geetruijd Kuijpers (71), Sprang
• Johanna Henriëtte van Fourcy Gravin van Chessy (45)

• 1685 » Thomas Tickell, English poet († 1740)
• 1699 » Charles-Louis Mion, French composer and educator († 1775)
• 1706 » Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist († 1749)
• 1734 » Maria I of Portugal († 1816)
• 1749 » Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator († 1801)
• 1778 » Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist († 1829)
• 1796 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician († 1865)
• 1797 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer († 1878)
• 1807 » John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist († 1892)
• 1812 » Vilhelm Petersen, Danish painter († 1880)

• 1562 » Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522)
• 1663 » Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
• 1721 » Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640)
• 1830 » Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (b. 1783)
• 1833 » Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812)
• 1847 » Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)
• 1857 » Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (b. 1774)
• 1904 » William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1907 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• March 28 » The Marathas under Baji Rao I attack and defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Delhi.
• September 20 » The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
• November 4 » The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.
• December 24 » The Marathas defeat the combined forces of the Mughal Empire, Rajputs of Jaipur, Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab of Awadh and Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Bhopal.

The temperature on December 17, 1737 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.