About the day » Saturday December 3, 1774Calender converter

• Berndina Lugtemaker
• Gertrud Spies, Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Guilielmus Lambrechts, Deurne, Antwerpen, België
• Adriaan de Wit, Tholen († 1826)
• Gerharda Kaal, Wehl
• Albert Lykels Bekhof, Oldeberkoop, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Dirk Kemmenaar, Alfen LDS († 1774)
• Franciscus Vekemans, Poederlee, Antwerpen, België († 1857)
• Aart Samuelsz BOOM, Numansdorp († 1846)

• Anna (Anneke) Godefridus Henrick VAN EIJCK (62), Mierlo
• Geertruijt Bellard, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Catharina Theodora Stuvé (0), Rotterdam
• (438) Jean Baptiste SIRLANGE (59), Roye, 70200, Haute-Saône, Franche-Comté, FRANCE
• Godefrida van Benthem (76), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Hendrik Adelaar (12)
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• Ilse Margaretha Schäper (0), Bramkamp (Pruissen Dl)
• Anna van Eyck (62), Mierlo, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana (Ariaantje) Claas Bonefaas (56), Pijnacker

• 1722 » Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet, composer, and philosopher († 1794)
• 1729 » Antonio Soler, Spanish composer and theorist († 1783)
• 1730 » Mahadaji Shinde, Maratha ruler of Gwalior († 1794)
• 1755 » Gilbert Stuart, American painter († 1828)
• 1793 » Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English painter and academic († 1867)
• 1800 » France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer († 1849)
• 1810 » Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, American author and political essayist († 1879)
• 1826 » George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey († 1885)
• 1833 » Carlos Finlay, Cuban epidemiologist and physician († 1915)
• 1838 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic († 1916)

• 1668 » William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (b. 1591)
• 1706 » Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1637)
• 1765 » Lord John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (b. 1713)
• 1789 » Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
• 1815 » John Carroll, American archbishop (b. 1735)
• 1876 » Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798)
• 1882 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811)
• 1888 » Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 » Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820)

• 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)
• May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• 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.
• June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• 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 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

The temperature on December 3, 1774 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: regen.