About the day » Sunday October 16, 1740Calender converter

• Andries Bijdevier Bijdevur, Utrecht
• Aaltjen WASSINK, Hengelo, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Anna Catharina Schlagheck, St.Gudula Rhede (D)
• Aeltjen Spikkers, Ruurlo
• Aartje Aerts, Loenen (Apeldoorn), Gelderland, Nederland
• Aart de Klerk (de Clerk), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Aart Aartsz Confurius, Andel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1745)
• Abraham Ariensz van Bodegom, Westmaas
• Annegien Koops TISSINGH, Hoogeveen
• Aarjen Scheltus, Den Helder

• Joseph Merriam (0), Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
• Hans Sippel, Nürnberg Kraftshof
• Geesken Hendricksen Smidt
• Jantje Wolthuis (4), Ten Boer,, Groningen, Nederland
• Kornelia Johans Kouwens (1), Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Harmen_Jans Welkhoff, Amsterdam, Westerkerkhof
• John Broucard (59), Raritan, Somerset County, Province of New Jersey
• Mary Lyman (72), Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Maria Elisabeth Arnold (53), Epfenbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Jean Messager (65), Obies, Nord, France

• 1710 » András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal († 1790)
• 1714 » Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic († 1795)
• 1726 » Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator († 1801)
• 1729 » Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer († 1768)
• 1752 » Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic († 1827)
• 1754 » Morgan Lewis, American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York († 1844)
• 1758 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer († 1843)
• 1762 » Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy († 1816)
• 1789 » William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware († 1866)
• 1795 » William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author († 1876)

• 1730 » Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, 3rd French Governor of Louisiana (b. 1658)
• 1730 » Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Greek politician, 139th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1666)
• 1750 » Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (b. 1687)
• 1755 » Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725)
• 1774 » Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)
• 1791 » Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (b. 1739)
• 1793 » John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728)
• 1793 » Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755)
• 1796 » Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)
• 1799 » Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760)

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

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

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
• June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
• October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
• October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

The temperature on October 16, 1740 was about 5.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: geheel betrokken.