About the day » Thursday March 17, 1757Calender converter

• Antie Hendriks Postma, Franeker, FRI, Nederland
• Catharina van Keulen, Ammerzoden,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1811)
• Catharina van Keulen, Ammerzoden († 1811)
• Antje Hendriks Postma Wetting, Franeker
• Elisabeth Van Lieshout, Leende, 5595, Nederland († 1829)
• Anna Catharina Hereijgers, Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1851)
• Emmanuel Fortuyne, Klemskerke (B)
• Barbara Ariens Duijndam, Wassenaar († 1797)
• Derk Hendriks
• Derk Kleinmarsink († 1835)

• Jacob van der Splinter (27), Noordwijk
• John Thomas Cole (77), Culpeper, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Pieter Bosbergen (0), Rotterdam
• Margaretha Zegerman, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Margaretha Zegermans ? Segerman(s), Utrecht
• Henricus Rhoo, Simpelveld, Limburg, Nederland
• Hans Hendrik van Haersma (50), Oenkerk, Friesland, Nederland
• Hans Hendrik Haersma (50), Staniastate, Oenkerk
• Geeske Rempkens (39), Nieuw Beerta
• Marie FOES (75), Grosbliederstroff, Moselle, Grand Est, France

• 1686 » Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French painter and engraver († 1755)
• 1725 » Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician († 1806)
• 1777 » Patrick Brontë, Irish-English priest and author († 1861)
• 1777 » Roger B. Taney, American politician and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of the United States († 1864)
• 1780 » Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister, economist, and educator († 1847)
• 1781 » Ebenezer Elliott, English poet and educator († 1849)
• 1804 » Jim Bridger, American fur trader and explorer († 1881)
• 1806 » Norbert Rillieux, African American inventor and chemical engineer († 1894)
• 1820 » Jean Ingelow, English poet and author († 1897)
• 1834 » Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft († 1900)

• 1680 » François de La Rochefoucauld, French author (b. 1613)
• 1704 » Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch soldier and engineer (b. 1641)
• 1715 » Gilbert Burnet, Scottish bishop and historian (b. 1643)
• 1741 » Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet and playwright (b. 1671)
• 1764 » George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer and politician (b. 1695)
• 1782 » Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1700)
• 1828 » James Edward Smith, English botanist and entomologist (b. 1759)
• 1829 » Sophia Albertina, princess-abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1753)
• 1830 » Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician (b. 1764)
• 1846 » Friedrich Bessel, German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1784)

1. Jan
2. Joannes
3. Pieter
4. Cornelis
5. Johannes
6. Hendrik
7. Jacob
8. Willem
9. Petrus
10. Gerrit
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. John
14. Dirk
15. Johann
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Marie
4. Johanna
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Grietje
10. Trijntje
11. Adriana
12. Neeltje
13. Jannetje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Aaltje

• 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 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
• May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
• May 6 » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
• June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
• November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
• December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

The temperature on March 17, 1757 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.