About the day » Tuesday February 22, 1774Calender converter

• Andries Hermans SOEREN (VAN ZOEREN), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1829)
• Anna Catharina Berendina Rosendahl, Xanten († 1840)
• Adriana Gloudemans, Berlicum, NL
• Andries Harmsen van Soeren, Amersfoort († 1828)
• Anna Roelofs, Zandhuizen, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Andries, Harmsen Buitenhuis, Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands († 1828)
• Anne Marie WERNER, Thann (68800, Haut-Rhin, France) († 1812)
• Anna Catharina Berendina Rosendaal, Xanten
• Aafke, Burum, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Amelberga Maes, Temse († 1818)

• Antje Caspers van Schoten (82), Haarlemmerliede, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Gaston Alexandre comte de Hamal (13), à Nivelles
• Hendrina HORSTER, Wisch, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Henricus Wilhelmus Libeton (52), Amsterdam
• Clementis NOURMALLE (49), Buvingen,3891,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Arent Nijmeyer, Hoogeveen
• Grietje Jans, Enkhuizen
• Helena Hoogerheide, Kats, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Baumann (40), Altenhagen, Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Franciscus Philippus Jacobus Braem (0), Westende, België

• 1732 » George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States († 1799)
• 1749 » Johann Nikolaus Forkel, German musicologist and theorist († 1818)
• 1778 » Rembrandt Peale, American painter and curator († 1860)
• 1788 » Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author († 1860)
• 1796 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist († 1874)
• 1796 » Alexis Bachelot, French priest and missionary († 1837)
• 1805 » Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, English poet and hymnwriter († 1848)
• 1806 » Józef Kremer, Polish historian and philosopher († 1875)
• 1817 » Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician and academic († 1880)
• 1819 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic († 1891)

• 1674 » Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (b. 1595)
• 1680 » La Voisin, French occultist (b. 1640)
• 1690 » Charles Le Brun, French painter and theorist (b. 1619)
• 1731 » Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
• 1732 » Francis Atterbury, English bishop (b. 1663)
• 1799 » Heshen, Chinese politician (b. 1750)
• 1816 » Adam Ferguson, Scottish historian and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1875 » Charles Lyell, Scottish-English geologist and lawyer (b. 1797)
• 1875 » Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1796)
• 1888 » Anna Kingsford, English physician and activist (b. 1846)

• 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.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
• September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on February 22, 1774 was about 5.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw.