About the day » Sunday February 6, 1774Calender converter

• Aaltjen ter Steege, Enter, Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus KeijZer, Nieuwe-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1808)
• Adrianus Robbers, Utrecht († 1811)
• Aaltje Wiegers de Ruiter, Wetering, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Jan Luttekes, Ommen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1779)
• Alle Symens Akkerman, Rinsumageest (Dantumadeel) († 1834)
• Aaltje Eikhout (Eekhout), 's-Graveland († 1860)
• Aaltje Meijer, Ankeveen,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Wiegers Ruiter, Blokzijl, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aagje van Tol, Oude Wetering

• Arie Hendriks van der Moere (64), Heemskerk
• Beene Klaas Jetten (0), Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland
• Guillelmus De ketelaere (76), Zedelgem, België
• Dorothea Sophie von Solms-Rödelheim (76)
• George Sampson, Jr. (82), Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
• Beene Klazes Jetten (0), Giethoorn
• Elisabeth Lehr (40), Schwarzenau, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Arie Hendrikszn van der Moere Moeren (64), Heemskerk, Nederland
• Hiltje Jans DIEMERS (0)
• Anna Catharina Klein (73), Arborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany

• 1753 » Évariste de Parny, French poet and author († 1814)
• 1756 » Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States († 1836)
• 1758 » Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Belarusian-Polish poet, playwright, and politician († 1841)
• 1769 » Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general († 1862)
• 1772 » George Murray, Scottish general and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies († 1830)
• 1778 » Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet († 1827)
• 1781 » John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, Irish general and politician, Governor of Saint Lucia († 1844)
• 1796 » John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist († 1861)
• 1797 » Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian general and politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia († 1853)
• 1799 » Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist († 1870)

• 1685 » Charles II of England (b. 1630)
• 1695 » Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1643)
• 1740 » Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
• 1775 » William Dowdeswell, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1721)
• 1783 » Capability Brown, English gardener and architect (b. 1716)
• 1793 » Carlo Goldoni, Italian-French playwright (b. 1707)
• 1804 » Joseph Priestley, English chemist and theologian (b. 1733)
• 1807 » John Reid, Scottish general (b. 1721)
• 1833 » Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1762)
• 1834 » Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)

1. Jan
2. Cornelis
3. Johannes
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Gerrit
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Dirk
12. Jacobus
13. Jean
14. John
15. Adrianus
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Aaltje
13. Antje
14. Elizabeth
15. Adriana
16. Jannetje

• 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 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
• June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
• July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
• August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on February 6, 1774 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: omtrent helder geheel betrokken.