About the day » Wednesday May 18, 1763Calender converter

• Antje Nammens Halma, Stiens († 1809)
• Anna Elisabeth Brüning, Brockdorf, Duitsland
• Anna Alegonda de Rechter, Ferdinanduspolder, Zeeland, Nederland
• Catharina Hendrica Rijk, Amsterdam
• Dirk Ant(h)oni Reitz, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1813)
• Daniel dr. Manger, Franeker (Friesland) NL († 1819)
• Dirk Antony Reitz, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1813)
• Cornelis de Bie, Halsteren († 1822)
• Antje Nammens, Stiens, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1809)
• Aukje Annes, Mildam

• Elisabetha Hollants (62), Eindhout
• abraham groenevelt, amsterdam
• Anna Somerset (22)
• Joannes Baptista VAN DER MEEREN (42), Gooik, 23024, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Johannes Jacob Conrad Broyles, Sr. (58), Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States
• Aafke Piers (40)
• Cornelis van der Linden (58), Kralingen, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Hendrik van Aggelen, Ede
• Aefke Piers (40)
• Jean BITSCH (52), Burnhaupt-le-Bas (68520, Haut-Rhin, France)

• 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)
• 1851 » James Budd, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California († 1908)

• 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)
• 1808 » Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)

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

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

• 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)
• May 9 » The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
• June 2 » Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
• September 1 » Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.
• September 14 » Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
• October 7 » King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
• December 2 » Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States.

The temperature on May 18, 1763 was about 10.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken.