About the day » Saturday March 31, 1770Calender converter

• aagje ariesdr. den BOER, strijen
• Anna Verreck, Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Duffels, Rees
• Everardus Nass, Niel
• Antonia Sestig, Made en Drimmelen, Nederland
• Christiane Dorothea Sophie Franke, Biesenrode, Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland († 1810)
• Cornelis van Drunen, Cromvoirt, Noord Brabant, Netherlands
• Arnoud van BEERS, Wamel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1853)
• Anthonia Franciscus Bruijnincks, Reusel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Elisabeth Jacobus Heeren, Rucphen

• Gerrit Kraajenbrink (89), Dinxperlo
• Anna Vereycken (85), Niel, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Cornelia Leenderts Kley, Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Herm Grubers (83), Nenndorf
• Garrit Krajenbrink (Kraijenbrink) (89), Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Giovanni Battista Filomarino (71), Napoli, Italie
• Hinderik Oomkes (30), Noorddijk
• Gerrit Kraaijenbrink
• Gerrit KRAJENBRINK (89), Dinxperlo, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Rahm (51), Hallau, Schaffhausen

• 1730 » Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist († 1783)
• 1732 » Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer († 1809)
• 1740 » Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician († 1849)
• 1747 » Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer († 1800)
• 1777 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer († 1859)
• 1778 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist († 1858)
• 1794 » Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1852)
• 1809 » Edward FitzGerald, English poet and translator († 1883)
• 1809 » Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright († 1852)
• 1809 » Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer († 1864)

• 1671 » Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
• 1723 » Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English soldier and politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1661)
• 1741 » Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch scholar and author (b. 1668)
• 1751 » Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hanoverian-born heir to the British throne (b. 1707)
• 1797 » Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian merchant, author, and activist (b.1745)
• 1837 » John Constable, English painter and educator (b. 1776)
• 1850 » John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1855 » Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1816)
• 1877 » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1880 » Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1835)

• 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.
• April 20 » The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
• April 29 » James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
• 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 7 » The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
• August 21 » James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

The temperature on March 31, 1770 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: mottig regen.