About the day » Saturday March 26, 1774Calender converter

• Abraham Pape, Sint-Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1848)
• Akke Eelkes Boonstra, Garijp, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1812)
• Cornelia Maria van Bergen, Bergen op Zoom
• Abraham Pape, Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1848)
• Cornelis Heijboer, Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1824)
• Adrianus Maarschalkerweerd, Utrecht († 1856)
• Antje Beernt Weerman, Nijeholtpade
• Constantia MOREELS, Elsegem (Elseghem), Wortegem-Petegem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Amand Joseph Dancoisnes, Lorgies († 1774)
• Cornelis Adriaansz Heijboer, Sint Annaland († 1824)

• Adriaan Kranenburg (76), Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alain LE RAVALLEC (46), Saint-Caradec-Trégomel,56540,Morbihan,Bretagne,FRANCE
• Cornelia Geurts, Roosteren,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aegje van der Vliet, Zuilen
• Cornelia Smets (Smiets) (72)
• Cornelis Petrus Cornelius Rijpers, Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Gertrudis Jansse van Erp, Herpen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Elisabeth Verdeyen (0), Tielt
• Anna Lucia Heincke (54), Gilten, Germany
• Adrianus Dirks Kranenburg (76), Strijen

• 1698 » Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor († 1765)
• 1749 » William Blount, American politician († 1800)
• 1753 » Benjamin Thompson, American-French physicist and politician, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies († 1814)
• 1773 » Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator († 1838)
• 1794 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter († 1872)
• 1804 » David Humphreys Storer, American physician and academic († 1891)
• 1824 » Julie-Victoire Daubié, French journalist († 1874)
• 1829 » Théodore Aubanel, French poet († 1886)
• 1842 » Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, French occultist († 1909)
• 1850 » Edward Bellamy, American author, socialist, and utopian visionary († 1898)

• 1697 » Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician (b. 1640)
• 1726 » John Vanbrugh, English playwright and architect, designed Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard (b. 1664)
• 1772 » Charles Pinot Duclos, French author and politician (b. 1704)
• 1776 » Samuel Ward, American jurist and politician, 31st Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island (b. 1725)
• 1780 » Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1713)
• 1793 » John Mudge, English physician and engineer (b. 1721)
• 1797 » James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (b. 1726)
• 1814 » Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician and politician (b. 1738)
• 1827 » Ludwig van Beethoven, German pianist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1858 » John Addison Thomas, American lieutenant, engineer, and politician, 3rd United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1811)

• 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)
• 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 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 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 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on March 26, 1774 was about 8.0 °C. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs.