About the day » Thursday April 12, 1770Calender converter

• Antonius Maes, Berlicum
• Amelia Maria Berg, Haarlem, Pays-Bas († 1794)
• Barbara Glatz, Humes Dtsl († 1770)
• Arie Jasperz Kleijn, Hardinxveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1824)
• Amelia Marie Berg, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands († 1794)
• Cornelis Vermeer, Wageningen, Nederland († 1817)
• Adriana van de Kasteele, Tholen/ gedoopt Halsteren († 1810)
• Adriana van de Kasteelen, Tholen, Nederland († 1810)
• Anne LE PELTIER, Séné,56860,Morbihan,Bretagne,FRANCE († 1813)
• Anne Pickens, Abbeville, South Carolina († 1846)

• Gijsbertus Jansen de Cort (83), Hedikhuizen
• Ferdinand Reinhard Wolf van Wallbrunn Heer van Partenheim (68), Partenheim, Rheinland-Palts
• Gabriel Bosschieter (62), Dirksland
• Anna Magdalena de la Faille (52), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Gertrude Jansen, Baak
• Elisabeth Benfer (65), Richstein, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Cornelis Fransiscus van Dun (64), Breda
• Anna Laenen, Geel,Sint Amands
• Anna Faille (52), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Elisabeth Buys (47)

• 1722 » Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer († 1793)
• 1724 » Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and politician, 16th Governor of Georgia († 1790)
• 1748 » Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist and author († 1836)
• 1777 » Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State († 1852)
• 1792 » John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English soldier and politician, Lord Privy Seal († 1840)
• 1794 » Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician and engineer († 1847)
• 1796 » George N. Briggs, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts († 1861)
• 1799 » Henri Druey, Swiss lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the Swiss Confederation († 1855)
• 1801 » Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor († 1843)
• 1816 » Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria († 1903)

• 1684 » Nicola Amati, Italian instrument maker (b. 1596)
• 1687 » Ambrose Dixon, English-American soldier (b. 1619)
• 1704 » Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (b. 1627)
• 1748 » William Kent, English architect, designed Holkham Hall and Chiswick House (b. 1685)
• 1782 » Metastasio, Italian-Austrian poet and composer (b. 1698)
• 1788 » Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-Italian composer (b. 1719)
• 1795 » Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
• 1814 » Charles Burney, English composer and historian (b. 1726)
• 1817 » Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (b. 1730)
• 1850 » Adoniram Judson, American lexicographer and missionary (b. 1788)

• 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 » Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
• April 19 » Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
• May 16 » The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France.
• June 19 » New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg writes: "The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reign. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770."
• August 22 » James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
• November 14 » James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.

The temperature on April 12, 1770 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: sneeuw regen. Special wheather fenomena: rijp.