About the day » Saturday February 18, 1741Calender converter

• Catharina Poulusse COPPOOLSE, Gapinge
• Antje Jans Boon, Onderdijk, North Holland, Netherlands († 1807)
• Barthélémy RAMOND, Bédarieux, 34028, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Nissergues
• Appollonia Van Roeyen, Temse (Oost-Vlaanderen, België) († 1830)
• Arij Gerritszn Koorneef, Vlaardingen,Gemeente Vlaardingen,Zuid-Holland,PAYS-BAS
• Crelis Bruining Steur, Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1741)
• Jan Anthonij de Jonge, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland († 1787)
• Jan Fekes, Deventer
• Francisca Van De Perre, Haeltert in de Sint-Gorikskerk († 1741)
• Catharina Joanna IJsebaert, Overslag, Wachtebeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1763)

• Hendrik Siebelink, Kotten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elisha Perkins (85), Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
• ANNE MARIE MICHAUX (70), Gilly, 6060, Hainaut, Région Wallonne, Belgique
• Bottje Sierks Dijkstra (25), Heeg, Wymbritseradeel
• Elizabeth Knight (66), Topsfiled, Essex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Jan Antonij Vergouwen (67)
• Claas Cornelisz Van GELDER (5)
• Madeleine BOURGERY (88), Montréal (Pointe-Claire)
• Joannes PLEUMECKERS (83), Gronsveld
• Anne MALINGE (27), Caro,56140,Morbihan,Bretagne,FRANCE

• 1642 » Marie Champmeslé, French actress († 1698)
• 1658 » Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French philosopher and author († 1743)
• 1732 » Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer († 1809)
• 1745 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery († 1827)
• 1814 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician († 1900)
• 1817 » Lewis Armistead, American general († 1863)
• 1836 » Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi († 1886)
• 1838 » Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1916)
• 1846 » Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager († 1904)
• 1848 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist († 1933)

• 1683 » Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
• 1695 » William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)
• 1712 » Louis, Dauphin of France, (b. 1682)
• 1743 » Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1667)
• 1748 » Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
• 1772 » Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
• 1778 » Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
• 1780 » Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
• 1788 » John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
• 1803 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)

•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
• March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
• May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
• July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
• August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
• September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

The temperature on February 18, 1741 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: helder.