About the day » Monday October 5, 1778Calender converter

• Adriaantje van Es, nieuw-lekkerland (zuid holland) († 1840)
• Antje Kleef, Limmen
• Andries Egberts Zijlstra, Bergum († 1847)
• Atje Martens, Oldeboorn, Friesland, Nederland († 1807)
• Catherina Lisebeth Spanheim, Geesteren
• Barent van Embden, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1831)
• Amandus Waterschoot, Hamme (België) († 1779)
• Anna Brosus, Turnhout († 1797)
• Thomas Zijlmans, Waspik († 1850)
• Amandus Waterschoot, Hamme (België) († 1779)

• Christianus (Kerst) Kersten (Fleuren) (65), Sevenum
• Edward (Infant) KYNASTON (1)
• Isabelle Thérése DeWolf (30), Nukerke,B
• (l.l.) Chatelain (0), Middelburg
• Clasina (Klaesin Claesina) Meuleman (Meulman Mulman) (59), Leiden, Nederland
• Henderina de Vroome, Dalfsen
• Jan Bastiaanszn Hoogenboom (66), Roelofarendsveen
• Grietje Kommersd de Jong (55), zuid-Beijerland
• Hendrikjen Wilbrink (1), Beekbergen
• Clasina Meuleman, Leiden

• 1728 » Chevalier d'Éon, French diplomat and spy († 1810)
• 1743 » Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer and educator († 1818)
• 1781 » Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher († 1848)
• 1792 » Joseph Crosfield, English businessman († 1844)
• 1795 » Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax († 1873)
• 1803 » Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter († 1844)
• 1816 » Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary († 1885)
• 1817 » Catherine Cooper Hopley, British author and naturalist († 1911)
• 1820 » David Wilber, American lawyer and politician († 1890)
• 1824 » Henry Chadwick, English-American historian and author († 1908)

• 1714 » Kaibara Ekken, Japanese botanist and philosopher (b. 1630)
• 1740 » Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
• 1777 » Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
• 1802 » Sanité Bélair, Haitian freedom fighter (b. 1781)
• 1805 » Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1738)
• 1813 » Tecumseh, American tribal leader (b. 1768)
• 1827 » William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761)
• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. Dirk
14. Klaas
15. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Catharina
8. Elisabeth
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Antje
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Adriana
15. Elizabeth
16. Janna

• 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)
• February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• February 14 » The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USSRanger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
• May 1 » American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
• August 3 » The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
• September 7 » American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
• November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.

The temperature on October 5, 1778 was about 9.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen.