About the day » Monday May 18, 1750Calender converter

• Albertus Hendriks Olijve, Odoorn († 1831)
• Aardina Bastiaans Holster, Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1751)
• Anna Millikan (Baldwin), Hopewell, Frederick County, Province of Virginia († 1832)
• Aaltje van de Legemaat, Doorn (U) († 1835)
• Aaltjen van de Legemaat, Doorn († 1835)
• Aardina Holster, Raamsdonk, Nederland
• Ariaantje Oskam, Lekkerkerk († 1777)
• Adriaantje Oskam, lekkerkerk (zuid holland) († 1777)
• Ann Baldwin, Hopewell, Frederick County, Virginia († 1833)
• Anna Wetherill, New Jersey, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1816)

• Jacob van Schie (0), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Leendertsz GLASBERGEN (46), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik Jansen Leunk (73)
• Jaqueline Desmet (40), Oedelem
• Dirk Leendertsz Glasbergen (46), Noordwijk(ZH)
• Dirk Leenders Glasburg (46), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Mary Bryan (21)
• Dirk Leendertsz Glasburg (46), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Glasburg (46), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Teunisse

• 1662 » George Smalridge, English bishop († 1719)
• 1692 » Joseph Butler, English bishop, theologian, and apologist († 1752)
• 1711 » Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician († 1787)
• 1777 » John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist († 1852)
• 1778 » Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria († 1854)
• 1785 » John Wilson, Scottish author and critic († 1854)
• 1797 » Frederick Augustus II of Saxony († 1854)
• 1822 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist († 1896)
• 1835 » Charles N. Sims, American Methodist preacher and 3rd chancellor of Syracuse University († 1908)
• 1850 » Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist († 1925)

• 1692 » Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)
• 1721 » Maria Barbara Carillo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition (b.1625)
• 1733 » Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)
• 1780 » Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
• 1781 » Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742)
• 1792 » Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
• 1795 » Robert Rogers, English colonel (b. 1731)
• 1799 » Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)
• 1800 » Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
• 1807 » John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• November 11 » Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
• November 11 » The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
• November 24 » Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.

The temperature on May 18, 1750 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.