About the day » Saturday December 26, 1744Calender converter

• Charity Coates, Kingwood, Hunterdon, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1827)
• Cornelis Roeleveld, Teckop († 1789)
• Alida Herk, Eemnes-Buiten
• Catharina PAUWELS, Arendonk, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1822)
• Ann Leonard, Wedmore, Somerset, England († 1770)
• Anna Maria van Houtum, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1810)
• Catharina Cruijs, Huissen
• Barbara de Jonge, Axel
• Anna van Wijn, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aelbert Hendriks, Gorssel († 1754)

• Cornelia Arents Lelievelt, Veur
• Anna Tielemans (52), Moorsel
• Jan Cooreman (71), Moorsel
• louis joseph colin, fays les veneurs
• Jan Bovier (0), unbekannt
• Judocus Willaert (Willaerts) (56), Bornem, België
• Jacob Derks Bakker (1)
• Sara de Zwaef (0), Axel
• Govert Leendertsz Goudswaard (50), Klaaswaal, Cromstrijen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Balduinus D'Hooghe (72), Sint-Niklaas (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)

• 1716 » Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher († 1803)
• 1716 » Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar († 1771)
• 1723 » Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright († 1807)
• 1737 » Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld († 1815)
• 1751 » Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint († 1820)
• 1751 » Lord George Gordon, English lieutenant and politician († 1793)
• 1769 » Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer and poet († 1860)
• 1780 » Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author († 1872)
• 1782 » Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan and saint († 1867)
• 1785 » Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium († 1871)

• 1646 » Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé (b. 1588)
• 1731 » Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672)
• 1771 » Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)
• 1780 » John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712)
• 1784 » Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743)
• 1786 » Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• February 22 » War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
• July 4 » The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
• September 30 » War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.

The temperature on December 26, 1744 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.