About the day » Thursday February 8, 1776Calender converter

• Anna Sybilla Hesse, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Beerent, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anne Therese Vermeersch, Lichtervelde († 1800)
• Christina Berns, Hulhuizen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1846)
• Anthonius, Joseph van Beckum, Uden
• Cornelis Verniers van der Loeff, Veere, Walcheren, Zeeland, Nederland († 1828)
• Arnoldus Gijsbertus Westerouen Van Meteren, Dinther (Heeswijk-Dinther), Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1853)
• Anna Maria Pieper, Amsterdam
• Barbara Spies, Margraten,, Limburg, Nederland
• Allegonda Hagens, Well († 1776)

• Geertruij OUWERKERK (54), Emmikhoven
• Barbara Joris van den Bosch (79), Delft
• Hendrik Maesen van Veldhuizen (73), Ede
• Anna Maria Gras "Graß" (95), Bad Salzig, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Anthony RAM (1), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Hendrik Maesen (73), Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Celestine Joseph Strappe (1), Violaines, 62138, FRANCE
• Geertruij Nanningsd Van OUWERKERK (55), Emmikhoven
• Claude Barbe Lamboley (59), Mélisey, Haute Saône, Franche-Comté, France
• Elisabeth Durie (du Rij, Duri) (64), Oudshoorn

• 1741 » André Grétry, Belgian-French organist and composer († 1813)
• 1762 » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor († 1820)
• 1764 » Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer and conductor († 1846)
• 1792 » Caroline Augusta of Bavaria († 1873)
• 1798 » Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia († 1849)
• 1807 » Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and zoologist († 1889)
• 1817 » Richard S. Ewell, American general († 1872)
• 1819 » John Ruskin, English author, critic, and academic († 1900)
• 1820 » William Tecumseh Sherman, American general († 1891)
• 1822 » Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist († 1894)

• 1696 » Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
• 1709 » Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1658)
• 1725 » Peter the Great, Russian emperor (b. 1672)
• 1749 » Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
• 1750 » Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet (b. 1685)
• 1768 » George Dance the Elder, English architect, designed St Leonard's and St Botolph's Aldgate (b. 1695)
• 1772 » Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (b. 1719)
• 1849 » François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (b. 1781)
• 1849 » France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer (b. 1800)
• 1856 » Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and academic (b. 1773)

• 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)
• April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
• May 1 » Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Upper Bavaria, by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
• June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
• August 27 » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
• December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
• December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.

The temperature on February 8, 1776 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.