About the day » Wednesday November 12, 1766Calender converter

• Cornelia van Erkel, Zeelst, Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aake Jaring, Enkhuizen, NH, Nederland († 1836)
• Anna Elisabeth Bünnemeyer, Dinklage, Niedersachsen, Duitsland († 1817)
• Cornelia Van Arkel, Zeelst the Netherlands († 1843)
• Adrianus de Vries, Heeze
• Anna Christina Dumont, Oud-Valkenburg
• Ann Martha Chadwick, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States († 1850)
• Anna Margaretha Alströmer († 1792)
• († 1808)
• Barbe Caroline Brigitte BONTE, Sint-Jan-Bij-Ieper,8900,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• Egidius Simon van der Elst (26), Viersel (Antwerpen), Nederland
• Gerrit Jans van der Kolk (60), Kampereiland, Kampen (Overijssel)
• Anna Maria Martens (79), Merksplas
• Jacob Nannesz Buisman (71), Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• AALT GERRITS GROOTHUIS, Nunspeet
• Anna Maria Petri Martens Lenaerts (79), Merksplas
• Floor (Gerritsz) Oudenes (59), Zevenhoven
• Gerrit Jans van der Kolk (60), Kampereiland, Overijssel Netherlands
• Jacob Nansz Buysman, Andijk
• Gerrit Jans van de Kolk (60), Kampereiland, Kampen, Nederland

• 1729 » Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer († 1811)
• 1755 » Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War († 1813)
• 1780 » Piet Retief, South African ruler († 1838)
• 1793 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist († 1831)
• 1795 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist († 1856)
• 1815 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist († 1902)
• 1817 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith († 1892)
• 1833 » Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist († 1887)
• 1840 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker († 1917)
• 1842 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)

• 1667 » Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598)
• 1671 » Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (b. 1612)
• 1742 » Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1793 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1793 » Lord George Gordon, English politician (b. 1751)
• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)

• 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)
• March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
• July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
• December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
• December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
• December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

The temperature on November 12, 1766 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: mist omtrent helder.