About the day » Thursday March 31, 1774Calender converter

• Arnoldus (Arend) SCHIE,VAN, Maassluis,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1833)
• Adrianus van Gils, Lage Mierde, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1847)
• Angeline van Rooijen, Vracene (B) († 1855)
• Barbara Spyschaert, Brugge O.L.Vr.3de
• Arend Arnoldus Jorisz van Schie, Maassluis († 1833)
• Catherine De Pooter, Lier, België
• Arend (arnoldus) Joriszn van Schie, Maassluis († 1833)
• Arnoldus Hoendervangers, Wouw († 1779)
• Bernardus Hermannus Brüggemeyer, Riesenbeck (Rijsenbekke) 48477, Duitsland
• Bethiah Blanchard, North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine, Verenigde Staten († 1850)

• Anna Eva Margaretha Willmes (65), Westfeld, Sauerland
• Anna Baar (73) (0), Ketzelsdorf Nr. 73
• Guurtje van der Harst (70), Scheveningen, Nederland
• Gerrit Wijgertsz Schaap (36), Huizen
• Claude BELLET (70), Eclose,38300,Isère,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Anna, Maria Callaert (49), Buggenhout
• Dora Sloot, Baak
• Garritjen Harms Braakhekke (25), Harfsen
• Frans van den Berg (0), Rotterdam
• Andrew Stuart (born Stewart), Rev (76), Pennsylvania, United States

• 1732 » Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer († 1809)
• 1740 » Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician († 1849)
• 1747 » Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer († 1800)
• 1777 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer († 1859)
• 1778 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist († 1858)
• 1794 » Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1852)
• 1809 » Edward FitzGerald, English poet and translator († 1883)
• 1809 » Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright († 1852)
• 1809 » Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer († 1864)
• 1813 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) († 1898)

• 1671 » Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
• 1723 » Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English soldier and politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1661)
• 1741 » Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch scholar and author (b. 1668)
• 1751 » Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hanoverian-born heir to the British throne (b. 1707)
• 1797 » Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian merchant, author, and activist (b.1745)
• 1837 » John Constable, English painter and educator (b. 1776)
• 1850 » John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1855 » Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1816)
• 1877 » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1880 » Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1835)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on March 31, 1774 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: dauw.