About the day » Monday April 18, 1774Calender converter

• Elisabeth Schokkenkamp, Terwolde, Gelderland, Nederland († 1781)
• Gerritje Aarts, Voorthuijsen († 1774)
• Adrianus de Winter, Den Haag
• Cornelia Vermeiren, Loenhout (B) († 1822)
• Gerrit toe Water van de Water, Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gerardus (Gerrit) Mettinkhof, Hasselo, 7558, Nederland († 1852)
• Aleida Spaan, Zetten († 1810)
• Harmen Sipkes
• Franciscus Mortaigne, Gits,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Aleyda Spaan, Zetten, Nederland († 1810)

• Jacques Poitras (70), Baie St.Paul, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada
• ADRIANUS TACKAERT (29), ZELE,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Arent Hendriks Verlee (47), Ooltgensplaat, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jacomeijn Rovers, Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ariaantje Broere (2), Lekkerkerk
• Jean Fournier (78), Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Chaudiere-Appalaches Region, Quebec, Canada
• Cornelia Diepenhorst (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Wauters (83), Wieze
• Barbara Luyx (48), Moorslede
• Jean COOSEMANS (73), Evere, 1140, Brussel-Hoofdstad, België

• 1740 » Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician († 1810)
• 1759 » Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer († 1823)
• 1771 » Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg († 1820)
• 1772 » David Ricardo, British economist and politician († 1823)
• 1794 » William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams († 1863)
• 1797 » Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France († 1877)
• 1813 » James McCune Smith, African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author († 1865)
• 1819 » Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist († 1874)
• 1819 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor († 1895)
• 1838 » Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic († 1912)

• 1689 » George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1648)
• 1732 » Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660)
• 1742 » Arvid Horn, Swedish general and politician (b. 1664)
• 1763 » Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian murderer (b. 1733)
• 1794 » Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
• 1796 » Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1732)
• 1802 » Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
• 1832 » Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
• 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)

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. Antje
13. Aaltje
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)
• January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• 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.
• July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
• October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".

The temperature on April 18, 1774 was about 9.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen.