About the day » Thursday April 7, 1774Calender converter

• Dirk Joukes Zandstra, Oenkerk, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1833)
• Barend van Schaik, Bunnik († 1798)
• Angeniete Nagelder, Haren, Nederland († 1846)
• Aaltje Wagenborg, Bunde,Dld († 1780)
• Cornelia Willems van Driel, Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• David van Heyst, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands († 1825)
• Albertus De Kimpe, Zele
• Agniete Hendriks (Agnieta, Hindriks) Nagelder, Haren, Nederland († 1846)
• Anna Routen, Elsloo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Lambertus DUIF, Haps, 3636, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1839)

• Egidius Van Hoye (39), Tielrode, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Helena (Lena) Andriessen van de Acker (44), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth van Sundert (0), Zantvliet, Antwerpen, België
• Aukjen Roelofs, Bolsward
• ANDRIES BAKKER (31), ZOETERMEER
• Claude-François (Le Mercier) VUILLET (38), Le Grand-Bornand, 74136, Haute Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France
• Joanna Ludovica De Keyser (59), Temse
• Andreas SEGERS (64), Sint-Kwintens-Lennik,1750,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Hendrika Bovy (45), Zutphen
• Albert Eugène ANNICOTTE (47), Douvrin,62276,Pas-de-Calais,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE

• 1718 » Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author († 1800)
• 1727 » Michel Adanson, French botanist, entomologist, and mycologist († 1806)
• 1763 » Domenico Dragonetti, Italian bassist and composer († 1846)
• 1770 » William Wordsworth, English poet († 1850)
• 1772 » Charles Fourier, French philosopher and author († 1837)
• 1780 » William Ellery Channing, American preacher and theologian († 1842)
• 1803 » Flora Tristan, French author and activist († 1844)
• 1803 » James Curtiss, American journalist and politician, 11th Mayor of Chicago († 1859)
• 1811 » Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher († 1881)
• 1817 » Francesco Selmi, Italian chemist and patriot († 1881)

• 1739 » Dick Turpin, English criminal (b. 1705)
• 1747 » Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1676)
• 1761 » Thomas Bayes, English minister and mathematician (b. 1701)
• 1766 » Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)
• 1767 » Franz Sparry, Austrian composer and director (b. 1715)
• 1782 » Taksin, Thai king (b. 1734)
• 1789 » Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1725)
• 1789 » Petrus Camper, Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (b. 1722)
• 1801 » Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer and author (b. 1724)
• 1804 » Toussaint Louverture, Haitian general (b. 1743)

• 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.
• September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on April 7, 1774 was about 9.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: regen weerlicht donder.