About the day » Thursday November 12, 1778Calender converter

• Antje Faazen, Overveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1840)
• ?? FRANÇOIS, Rémilly (57), France († 1778)
• Arij Gerrits WARNAR, Strijen († 1847)
• Catharina van De Weijenberg († 1843)
• Albert Tranquille LELONG, Noyelles-sur-Selle,59282,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1812)
• Antje Faase, Overveen († 1840)
• Coleta Francisca CASTELEIN, Moorslede
• Antje Baijs, Wieringen, Nederland († 1841)
• Barbara, Theresia De Block, Stekene, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1859)
• Christina Johanna Herklots, Cassimbazar († 1805)

• Anna Maria MORET (36), Amsterdam
• Antoine THUET (74), Deuillet,02700,Aisne,Picardie,FRANCE
• Hans Ulrig Willauir (65)
• ? Quist (7), Nieuw Vossemeer gem. Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NED
• Catharina VERSCHUEREN (61), Lamswaarde, Stoppeldijk
• Carolus Baeckelandt (0), Koekelare
• Hannah Jacob (82), Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
• Anna Maria Moret (36), Amsterdam
• Henri van den HOVE (29)
• Geertruij Willemsdr van Dalen (55), Nieuw-Beijerland, Nederland

• 1729 » Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer († 1811)
• 1755 » Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War († 1813)
• 1780 » Piet Retief, South African ruler († 1838)
• 1793 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist († 1831)
• 1795 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist († 1856)
• 1815 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist († 1902)
• 1817 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith († 1892)
• 1833 » Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist († 1887)
• 1840 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker († 1917)
• 1842 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)

• 1667 » Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598)
• 1671 » Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (b. 1612)
• 1742 » Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1793 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1793 » Lord George Gordon, English politician (b. 1751)
• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)

• 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 1 » American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
• June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
• August 3 » The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
• August 21 » American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
• August 26 » The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
• September 19 » The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.

The temperature on November 12, 1778 was about 5.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen hagel.