About the day » Wednesday December 3, 1760Calender converter

• Arien Mettes, Abbekerk
• (2) Arien Mettes, Abbekerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1834)
• Anna Maria Elst, Kalmthout (B) († 1763)
• Arien (Arie) Pietersz Mettes, Obdam, Noord-Holland (NL) († 1834)
• Anna Maria van Lottum, Huissen
• Ariën Pietersz Mettes, Abbekerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1834)
• Adrianus Franciscus VAN DEN HOVE, Melle, Belgique
• Claude BAILLY (BALLY), Saint-Jean-de-Bournay,ISÈRE,Rhône-Alpes,France († 1761)
• Catherine Albertine Maton, Pâturages, Colfontaine, Hainaut, Belgique († 1818)
• Alida Harte, Rotterdam († 1820)

• Marie Catherine HOTTART (60), Limelette, 1342, Brabant Wallon, Belgique
• Rink Douwes (45), Workum, Nijefurd, Friesland, Nederland
• Joannes Colstere (42)
• Mathurin RIOU (60), Châteauneuf, 85710, France
• Petrus Daenens (47), Oudenburg
• Eva Alijdis Hanlo (28), Zwolle
• Gwen Foulke (69), Gwynedd, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British America
• Annegien Egberts (47), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Derk Dalhuisen (0), Hattem
• Israel Mecham (45), Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

• 1684 » Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer († 1754)
• 1722 » Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet, composer, and philosopher († 1794)
• 1729 » Antonio Soler, Spanish composer and theorist († 1783)
• 1730 » Mahadaji Shinde, Maratha ruler of Gwalior († 1794)
• 1755 » Gilbert Stuart, American painter († 1828)
• 1793 » Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English painter and academic († 1867)
• 1800 » France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer († 1849)
• 1810 » Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, American author and political essayist († 1879)
• 1826 » George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey († 1885)
• 1833 » Carlos Finlay, Cuban epidemiologist and physician († 1915)

• 1668 » William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (b. 1591)
• 1706 » Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1637)
• 1765 » Lord John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (b. 1713)
• 1789 » Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
• 1815 » John Carroll, American archbishop (b. 1735)
• 1876 » Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798)
• 1882 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811)
• 1888 » Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 » Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820)

• 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• June 27 » Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
• July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
• October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
• October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
• October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
• November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.

The temperature on December 3, 1760 was about 9.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest by west. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.