About the day » Thursday August 23, 1770Calender converter

• Bartholomeus van Zijl, Wijk aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1777)
• Anna Catharina Siepenkothen, Duisburg, Mündelheim, Rheinland, Deutschland († 1770)
• Adrianus Franciscus D'Hondt, Denderhoutem (Herlinckhove), Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1842)
• Antonius DE SAMBLANCKX, Borchtlombeek († 1815)
• Cornelia Claasd Lichthart, De Campen, Oude Niedorp (nh,nld)
• Adriana van de Donker, Sliedrecht († 1806)
• "Roeloff" Rodulphi Rodulphi, Berlicum, NL († 1836)
• Anders Nilsen, Botne,Vestfold,Norway
• adriana jaspers van de DONK, sliedrecht († 1806)
• Anna-Catharina Münch, Niedernierendorf

• Christoph Friedrich von PAPPENHEIM (67)
• David Meese (46), Franeker
• Adriaantje Ariensdr den Houting (83), Dubbeldam
• Aagje Fraijman (0), Wijk aan Zee en Duin, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrikje LUBBERTS (67), Putten, Veluwe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ariaentje Ariensdr den Houting (83), Wieldrecht
• Ariaantje Ariens Houting de (82), Wieldrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van Zundert (van Sundert), Oudenbosch
• Cornelia Cornelisdr. van Grieken (1), Leimuiden
• Ariaantje Ariensd den Houting, Dubbeldam, zh.nld

• 1724 » Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant († 1796)
• 1741 » Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer († 1788)
• 1754 » Louis XVI of France († 1793)
• 1769 » Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic († 1832)
• 1783 » William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge († 1852)
• 1785 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander († 1819)
• 1805 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian judge and politician († 1893)
• 1814 » James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop († 1877)
• 1829 » Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian († 1920)
• 1843 » William Southam, Canadian publisher († 1932)

• 1652 » John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (b. 1600)
• 1706 » Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
• 1806 » Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
• 1813 » Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
• 1819 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785)
• 1831 » August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1759)
• 1853 » Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)
• 1867 » Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet and author (b. 1796)

• 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 » 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.
• 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.

The temperature on August 23, 1770 was about 16.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: regen omtrent betrokken.