About the day » Thursday March 8, 1770Calender converter

• Arij Thijsz. van Velsen, Wassenaar († 1813)
• Anna Gertrudis Blome, Bevergern († 1771)
• Agnes Margaretha Fagel, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1840)
• Aaltje Roos, Leiden
• Anna Barbara Goijvaerts, Heist-op-den-Berg († 1808)
• Adrianus de Visser, Waspik
• Antje Hijlkes, Langezwaag, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adolphus Verhoeven, Cuijk
• Abraham Joseph de Jong, Gouda († 1803)
• Adrianus van Velsen, Wassenaar

• Aletta Jans (44)
• Anna Maria Van den Eynde (4), Rijmenam,Antwerpen, Vlaanderen,Belgi√´
• IJnske Sippes (33), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Fransz Merkus, dirksland (goeree overflakkee)
• Anna Gesina te Koppel (0), Rhede (Kr. Borken), Westfalen, Preußen, Germany
• Anna de NEUTER (87), Wezemaal, 3111, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen, België
• Augustus Stanley (56), Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
• Henri Orban (53), Horion-Hozémont, Principauté de Liège
• Giacomo Andrea Cristoforo Ou Alfonso SCHEGGIA (54), Semione, 6714, TI, Suisse
• Grietje Meijnderts (65), Den Hoorn

• 1714 » Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer († 1788)
• 1726 » Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician, Treasurer of the Navy († 1799)
• 1746 » André Michaux, French botanist and explorer († 1802)
• 1748 » William V, Prince of Orange († 1806)
• 1761 » Jan Potocki, Polish ethnologist, historian, linguist, and author († 1815)
• 1799 » Simon Cameron, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Secretary of War († 1889)
• 1804 » Alvan Clark, American astronomer and optician († 1887)
• 1822 » Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp († 1882)
• 1826 » Johann Köler, Estonian painter and academic († 1899)
• 1827 » Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist († 1875)

• 1702 » William III of England (b. 1650)
• 1717 » Abraham Darby I, English blacksmith (b. 1678)
• 1723 » Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St. Paul's Cathedral (b. 1632)
• 1731 » Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
• 1771 » Louis August le Clerc, French-Danish sculptor and academic (b. 1688)
• 1819 » Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1739)
• 1844 » Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1869 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803)
• 1872 » Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 » Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (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)
• 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.
• April 20 » The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
• June 11 » British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
• 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.

The temperature on March 8, 1770 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs.