About the day » Tuesday April 24, 1770Calender converter

• Antonia SCHOENMAEKERS, Ginneken,4835,Noord-Brabant,Breda,NEDERLAND († 1831)
• Basil MONTAGU († 1851)
• Anna Maria Hanssen, Schaesberg,, Limburg, Nederland
• Geertruij van der GRIENT, Strijen
• Anna Maria Catharina Ryckaert, Klerken († 1836)
• Agnes Spiegelhoff, Spiegelhoff
• Basil [legitimized] Montagu († 1851)
• Ann\Anne Coupland\Copland, Holm Orkney Scotland
• Adriana Rombouts, Oud en nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1813)
• Barbara Theresia Baetens, Waregem

• Anne LAPOINTE (SPIESE SPIESS SPISE SPICE) (33), LUPPY-Moselle
• Gerlandje Gaeles (Gerlantie) Faber (42), Jelsum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• François Vandewalle, Oostkamp
• Adriana Marinusse Brouwer (36), Sint Philipsland NL
• Gerlantie Geeles Faber (42), Jelsum
• Catharina Grieles (41), Antwerpen
• Cornelis Janszn Dubbeldam (83), Ammerstol, Nederland
• Adrianus Francisci van Schijndel (0), Lith
• Goswin Jochem ter Glane (63), Losser
• Charles Louis Joseph Nollet (1), Halluin, 59 (F)

• 1706 » Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian pianist and composer († 1780)
• 1718 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-English painter and educator († 1784)
• 1743 » Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom († 1823)
• 1784 » Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist († 1860)
• 1815 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer († 1882)
• 1823 » Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician, President of Mexico († 1889)
• 1845 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1856 » Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France († 1951)
• 1860 » Queen Marau, last Queen of Tahiti (d.1935)
• 1862 » Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist († 1957)

• 1617 » Concino Concini, Italian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1575)
• 1622 » Fidelis of Sigmaringen, German friar and saint (b. 1577)
• 1656 » Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
• 1731 » Daniel Defoe, English journalist, novelist, and spy (b. 1660)
• 1748 » Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (b. 1683)
• 1779 » Eleazar Wheelock, American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
• 1794 » Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1719)
• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)

• 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)
• April 19 » Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
• May 16 » The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France.
• July 1 » Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000km; 1,360,000mi).
• July 5 » The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
• August 21 » James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
• November 14 » James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.

The temperature on April 24, 1770 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder zeer betrokken.