About the day » Monday April 11, 1774Calender converter

• Berendje Willems Knol, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 1844)
• Chauncey Humphrey, Simsbury Connecticut († 1852)
• Andreas Haemers, Schinnen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Andris ANDRIS, Nes, West-Dongeradiel, Dongeradiel, Fryslân, Nederland († 1782)
• Anna van Gent, Schiebroek
• Berentje Knol, Oldeborg gem. Boarnsterhim Fr. Nederland
• Beerent Jans Starke, Nieuwe Pekela
• Aldegunda Judoca Danckaert, Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 1810)
• Anna van der Wegen, Wouw, NB, Ned
• Catherine Elizabeth Ellsworth, Augusta County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1814)

• Françoise BONNIN, Sallertaine, 85300, France
• Anske Minnes (90)
• Gerrit Janse van der PIJPEN, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardina Maria Goossens (15), Warbeyen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Anna Verschelden (84), Sinaai (B)
• Daniel Willard (54), Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts
• Cornelis Andriesse Macq, KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP, ZA
• Arnoldus Oppers (52)
• Aukjen (Aukien, Ancke) Roelofs (Roelefs) (70), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Fransijntje Elias (66), Gouda, Nederland

• 1721 » David Zeisberger, Czech-American clergyman and missionary († 1808)
• 1722 » Christopher Smart, English actor, playwright, and poet († 1771)
• 1749 » Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, French miniaturist and portrait painter († 1803)
• 1755 » James Parkinson, English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist († 1824)
• 1770 » George Canning, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1827)
• 1794 » Edward Everett, English-American educator and politician, 15th Governor of Massachusetts († 1865)
• 1798 » Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic († 1854)
• 1819 » Charles Hallé, German-English pianist and conductor († 1895)
• 1825 » Ferdinand Lassalle, German philosopher and jurist († 1864)
• 1827 » Jyotirao Phule, Indian scholar, philosopher, and activist († 1890)

• 1712 » Richard Simon, French priest and critic (b. 1638)
• 1723 » John Robinson, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1650)
• 1783 » Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Polish-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1718)
• 1798 » Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet and academic (b. 1725)
• 1856 » Juan Santamaría, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1831)
• 1861 » Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (b. 1824)
• 1873 » Edward Canby, American general (b. 1817)
• 1890 » David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch Talmudist (b. 1808)
• 1890 » Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities (b. 1862)
• 1894 » Constantin Lipsius, German architect and theorist (b. 1832)

• 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)
• January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• 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.

The temperature on April 11, 1774 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken.