About the day » Monday December 17, 1770Calender converter

• Auke Hendriks, Sonnega, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Dingbaar, Stompwijk († 1830)
• Dignus (Dingenis) Schipper, Yerseke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1836)
• Dignus Schipper († 1836)
• Bokke Fokstra
• Drury Stovall, Granville, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1858)
• Charles DE VREESE († 1813)
• Anna Jansdr. Dingber - Dingbaar, Stompwijk († 1830)
• Auke Hendriks Snijder, Sonnega († 1855)
• Christine Grauel, Elsoff, Kreis Wittgenstein

• Aert Cornelisse in den Engh (51)
• Jan Barentse Visser (69), Woerden
• Maaijke Huijgen KRANENBURG (53), Sandelingen-Ambacht
• Claas Willemsz van den Berg (50), Maasland
• Cornelis Claasz Jongeneel (25), Sluipwijk, Zuid Holland
• Gerard (De Jonge) Bouricius (59), Amsterdam,NL, Nederland
• Antonius van Gool, Oosterhout
• Gerarda Sijbranda van Assendelft (24), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Klaas van den Berg (50), Maasland, 3155, Nederland
• KLAAS! VAN DEN BERG (50), MAASLAND

• 1706 » Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist († 1749)
• 1734 » Maria I of Portugal († 1816)
• 1749 » Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator († 1801)
• 1778 » Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist († 1829)
• 1796 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician († 1865)
• 1797 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer († 1878)
• 1807 » John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist († 1892)
• 1812 » Vilhelm Petersen, Danish painter († 1880)
• 1827 » Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician († 1893)
• 1830 » Jules de Goncourt, French author and critic († 1870)

• 1663 » Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
• 1721 » Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640)
• 1830 » Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (b. 1783)
• 1833 » Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812)
• 1847 » Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)
• 1857 » Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (b. 1774)
• 1904 » William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1907 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)

• 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 » Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
• June 11 » British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
• 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."
• 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 22 » James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.

The temperature on December 17, 1770 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: hagel zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: droog.