About the day » Thursday November 17, 1768Calender converter

• Amy JARRELL, Bedford, Bedford, Virginia, United States († 1852)
• Verhaegen Joannes Franciscus, Schriek, Antwerpen, België
• Anna Elisabetha Heylen, Noorderwijk, Herentals, België († 1803)
• Catharina van den Couwelaer, Meerle, Hoogstraten, Antwerpen, België
• Catharina VAN DEN CAUWELAER, Meerle,2328,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
• Gertrudis Maartens (Grietje) Janmaat, zuid-waddinxveen († 1822)
• Adrianus Schillemans, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1815)
• Anna Maria Poels, Kampenhout
• Cornelius VAN MECHELEN, Dessel,2480,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1829)
• Cornelius Van Mechelen, Dessel, België († 1829)

• Aard Claasz van Langenhuijsen (58), Berlicum-Middelrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Johann Gerhard Brink (0), Versen
• Catharina Huybrechts, Oud Heverlee, 3050, Leuven, België
• Catharina Conrad Hansens (59)
• Jean-Christophe Borzek Dohalsky de Dohalic (73), Prague (Praha),, Rép. Tchèque
• Johannes Lohmans (58), Kranenburg (D)
• Ariaantje Klaas Bakker (40)
• Marie-Anne HOCHSTETTER (40), Burnhaupt-le-Haut, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Klaas Franszn van Hemert (10), Noordwijk, Holland, toenmalige Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden
• Jannetje Gerrits van Wengarden (49), Woerden, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1729 » Maria Antonia Ferdinanda, Sardinian queen consort († 1785)
• 1749 » Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning († 1841)
• 1753 » Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist († 1815)
• 1755 » Louis XVIII, king of France († 1824)
• 1765 » Jacques MacDonald, French general († 1840)
• 1769 » Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1818)
• 1790 » August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer († 1868)
• 1793 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic († 1865)
• 1816 » August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer and historian († 1876)
• 1827 » Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian journalist and poet († 1895)

• 1708 » Ludolf Bakhuizen, German-Dutch painter (b. 1631)
• 1713 » Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
• 1747 » Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668)
• 1768 » Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
• 1776 » James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710)
• 1780 » Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1720)
• 1796 » Catherine the Great, of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1808 » David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (b. 1721)
• 1812 » John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (b. 1738/1739)
• 1818 » Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)

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

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

• 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)
• February 29 » Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
• April 4 » In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
• June 21 » James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
• November 5 » Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
• December 1 » The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
• December 10 » The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

The temperature on November 17, 1768 was about 8.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: regen mottig.