About the day » Tuesday February 18, 1766Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Slegers, Dessel,Antwerpen,Belgie († 1828)
• Oblin, Troisvilles (F)
• Cornelis Janse Van Gastel, Rucphen,Brabant (North),Netherlands
• Anna Margaret Horstmann († 1844)
• Constantinus DE BOCK, Sint-Denijs-Boekel,9630,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Blasia Du Treeuw, Stalhille, Jabbeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1767)
• Catharina Baerten, Bilzen († 1815)
• Antonia van Amstel, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Margaret Hörstmann († 1844)
• Cornelis Janse van Gastel, Rucphen (Rucphen) (Noord-Brabant) († 1815)

• Elisabeth van Bogaert (61), Sint-Niklaas
• Franciscus VAN LIEFFERINGE (46), Overboelare, 41056, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Adrianus Rovers, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andreas Schimmel (44), Kühlsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
• Dirkje Jans (58), Egmond aan Zee, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maes (47), Noorderwijk
• Abraham Harms (75), Onstwedde (gem. Stadskanaal)
• Dirkje Nagel, Egmond aan Zee, Nederland
• Frederike Henriëtte Anna Maria Leijonhufvud (74)
• Antonie Plomp

• 1732 » Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer († 1809)
• 1745 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery († 1827)
• 1814 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician († 1900)
• 1817 » Lewis Armistead, American general († 1863)
• 1836 » Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi († 1886)
• 1838 » Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1916)
• 1846 » Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager († 1904)
• 1848 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist († 1933)
• 1849 » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician († 1906)
• 1850 » George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor († 1934)

• 1683 » Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
• 1695 » William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)
• 1712 » Louis, Dauphin of France, (b. 1682)
• 1743 » Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1667)
• 1748 » Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
• 1772 » Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
• 1778 » Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
• 1780 » Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
• 1788 » John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
• 1803 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)

• 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 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
• 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.
• November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
• December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

The temperature on February 18, 1766 was about 4.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen betrokken.