About the day » Monday December 26, 1774Calender converter

• Alagonda van Winsen, Wamel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1856)
• albert pinkster, veendam († 1811)
• Aalbert Aalten van Gelder, Nijkerk
• Alexander STRACHAN, St. Vigeans
• Abraham Starrenburg, Maassluis
• Anna Fockes van der Werff, Kleinemeer, Nederland († 1854)
• Aaltjen Dries Puttenstein, Hattem, Nederland
• Aaltjen GESINK, Eibergen, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Aagje Pennings, 't Zandt, Groningen, Nederland († 1808)
• Aaltjen Dries, Hattem

• Claes Jannes Prakken (0), Elsloo, gem. Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• adriana boot, stad a/h haringvliet (goeree overflakkee)
• jannetje commers rietdijk (54), oostvoorne (zuid holland)
• Stephan Fox (29)
• Stephen FOX (29)
• Marten Aartsen (58), Nunspeet
• Elisabeth SCHRAP (40), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Dorothée (Marie Dorothée) BANDEL (73), Lemberg, 57, Moselle, Lorraine, France
• Steven Fox Baron Holland van Foxley (29)
• Maria Ockers (74), Temse

• 1737 » Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld († 1815)
• 1751 » Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint († 1820)
• 1751 » Lord George Gordon, English lieutenant and politician († 1793)
• 1769 » Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer and poet († 1860)
• 1780 » Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author († 1872)
• 1782 » Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan and saint († 1867)
• 1785 » Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium († 1871)
• 1791 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine († 1871)
• 1803 » Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author († 1882)
• 1819 » E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author and educator († 1899)

• 1646 » Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé (b. 1588)
• 1731 » Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672)
• 1771 » Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)
• 1780 » John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712)
• 1784 » Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743)
• 1786 » Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)

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)
• March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
• June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• 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.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.

The temperature on December 26, 1774 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: geheel betrokken.