About the day » Friday November 5, 1773Calender converter

• Angela De Leeuw, Landegem,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Catharina Kerstmaker, Waalre, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1847)
• Annetje Benjamins Romeijn, Zuidland († 1784)
• Catharina van Gelder, Utrecht (UTR) NL
• Aagje Hesseling, Groningen († 1810)
• Adrianus Bruggen van der, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1819)
• Anne Spencer († 1865)
• Anna Elisabeth Melis, Langdorp († 1815)
• Catherine Susan Weidman, Lancaster Co., Pa († 1830)
• Anna Marie Schwantje, Sage.Taufe 07.11.1773 Großenkneten († 1818)

• Jacob Jan de Jonge (35)
• Albertine von Hohenlohe Langenburg (72)
• Adriana Elisabeth Verster de Balbian (37), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jan Baptist Bruyninckx (55), Rillaar, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Jacob Johan de Jonge (35)
• Bernd Wilhelm Hesselfeld (Hesselfelt) (47)
• Albertine van Hohenlohe-Langenburg (72)
• Dieltje Hendriks op de Kuijt, Putten
• van Os, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Henrich Meyer (79), Wallau, Kreis Biedenkopf

• 1701 » Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator († 1785)
• 1705 » Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer († 1770)
• 1715 » John Brown, English author and playwright († 1766)
• 1722 » William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician († 1798)
• 1739 » Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire († 1819)
• 1742 » Richard Cosway, English painter († 1821)
• 1789 » William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician († 1868)
• 1818 » Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts († 1893)
• 1835 » Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher († 1902)
• 1846 » Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross († 1869)

• 1660 » Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (b. 1591)
• 1660 » Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (b. 1599)
• 1701 » Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1659)
• 1714 » Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
• 1752 » Carl Andreas Duker, German scholar and jurist (b. 1670)
• 1758 » Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (b. 1686)
• 1872 » Thomas Sully, English-American painter (b. 1783)
• 1876 » Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
• 1879 » James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (b. 1831)
• 1923 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)

• 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)
• January 1 » The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
• January 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
• May 10 » The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
• June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
• October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• December 16 » American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

The temperature on November 5, 1773 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: zeer betrokken omtrent helder.