About the day » Monday December 24, 1742Calender converter

• Adriana Gloudemans, Berlicum, NL
• Arend Pieterse van Dijk, Poeldijk
• Alena Flantua, Utrecht
• Antje Dirks Veen, Assendelft,North Holland,Netherlands († 1805)
• Christiana Dorothea Weihenmajer, Neckargröningen, Remseck am Neckar, Baden-Würtemberg, Duitsland († 1816)
• Christine Dorothea Weihenmajer († 1816)
• Barbara Davenport († 1760)
• ALEXANDER BERNARDUS BLONTROCK, Koekelare, West Flanders, Belgium († 1743)
• Carol Eduard mr. Schoorn, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NL († 1797)
• Agatha Godelieva VERPLANCKE

• Antje Roosa (60), Smithfield, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States
• Bogislaw Friedrich von Dönhoff (73), Drogosze / Dönhoffstädt, Barciany, Pologne
• Gerrit van Westreenen (34), Batavia, Java
• Frances BROMSALL (56), Denston Hall, Suffolk, England
• Gerardus Jacob Geert Van de Cloot (62), Loenhout, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Geertrui Slicher (58), Amsterdam
• Gerardus Jacob Geert van der Cloot (62), Loenhout (B)
• Anna Helena SOMMER (41), Düren,,NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN,DEUTSCHLAND,Niedermerz,Aldenhoven
• Gerrit van Westreenen (34), Batavia, Jawa Barat, Indonesia (Dutch East Indies)
• Anna Katharina SCHWEITZER (39), Obersalbach, Heusweiler, Saarland, Deutschland

• 1679 » Domenico Sarro, Italian composer and educator († 1744)
• 1698 » William Warburton, English bishop († 1779)
• 1726 » Johann Hartmann, Danish composer († 1793)
• 1731 » Julie Bondeli, Swiss salonist and lady of letters († 1778)
• 1754 » George Crabbe, English priest, surgeon, and poet († 1832)
• 1761 » Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer († 1831)
• 1761 » Selim III, Ottoman sultan († 1808)
• 1798 » Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet and playwright († 1855)
• 1809 » Kit Carson, American general († 1868)
• 1810 » Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter and illustrator († 1873)

• 1635 » Hester Jonas, German nurse (b. 1570)
• 1660 » Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
• 1707 » Noël Coypel, French painter and educator (b. 1628)
• 1813 » Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
• 1844 » Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter (b. 1803)
• 1863 » William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (b. 1811)
• 1865 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)
• 1867 » José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and regent of the Second Mexican Empire(b. 1797)
• 1868 » Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
• 1872 » William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 24 » Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• February 16 » Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
• April 13 » George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

The temperature on December 24, 1742 was about -8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: helder.