About the day » Wednesday June 26, 1754Calender converter

• Geesjen Jans, Oldelamer, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus Wilhelmus Hermeling, Didam
• Boudewijn Johansz van Verre, Zierikzee,ZL († 1807)
• Aggeeus Raap, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1754)
• Elisabeth Willemse van Rijkel, Oosterland
• Ambrosia Francisca Lansen, Zarren West-Vlaanderen, België († 1754)
• Hendrik Sjoukes (Hindrik, Schoukes) Uwma, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1839)
• Gijsbert van Zeldert, Eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland
• Geneviève DESCAMPS, Buire-au-Bois,62182,Pas-de-Calais,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE († 1800)
• Gijsbert van Zeldert, Eemnes,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1820)

• Jan (IJan) Fokking, Amsterdam
• Elisabeth De Booy (71), Ekeren
• Hermanus van der Kloot, Delft
• Jan Ariesz Meulendijck (73), Ridderkerk
• Jan Arijsz Molendijk (72), ridderkerk (zuid holland)
• Annetjen Alberts, Ens, Schokland
• Jonathan Foote (50), Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America
• Henricus CUYPERS, Boorsheim,1000-1794,Graafschap Loon, Prinsbisdom Luik
• Jannetje ALBERTS (24), Ens (Schokland), Noordoostpolder
• Johanna Geerit Verhagen (44), Schijndel, NL

• 1694 » Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist († 1768)
• 1699 » Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French businesswoman († 1777)
• 1702 » Philip Doddridge, English hymn-writer and educator († 1751)
• 1703 » Thomas Clap, American minister and academic († 1767)
• 1726 » Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia († 1796)
• 1730 » Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic († 1817)
• 1764 » Jan Paweł Łuszczewski, Polish politician († 1812)
• 1796 » Jan Paweł Lelewel, Polish painter and engineer († 1847)
• 1798 » Wolfgang Menzel, German poet and critic († 1873)
• 1817 » Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet († 1848)

• 1688 » Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher and academic (b. 1617)
• 1752 » Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
• 1757 » Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1784 » Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
• 1793 » Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1720)
• 1793 » James Dickey, Irish revolutionary (b. 1776)
• 1795 » Johannes Jährig, German linguist and translator (b. 1747)
• 1808 » Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
• 1810 » Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
• 1830 » George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
• May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
• July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.

The temperature on June 26, 1754 was about 15.0 °C. There was 70 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: zeer betrokken.