About the day » Wednesday December 9, 1778Calender converter

• Catharina Verheijen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Biesheuvel, Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Culer, Mijdrecht († 1833)
• Beert Dirksen Rens, Nunspeet
• Aalt van Nijhuis, Ermelo († 1834)
• Antonia van Alphen, Teteringen
• Adrianus Verkuijlen
• Cornelis Jansz Twisk, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1828)
• Catharina Leeuwenschild, Kethel
• Anna Catharina PELEMAN, Sint-Gillis-Bij-Dendermonde,9200,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1841)

• Anna Schouten (45), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jean Jacques Kaas (67)
• Jean Baptiste JUGNAC (53), Cap-Sante, Quebec
• Kindje Elsinga (3), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Baarnd barendsz Sombroek (12), West Zaandam
• Elisabeth Op 't Roodt (2), Beegden, Limburg, The Netherlands
• Catharina Johanna Schuttrup (49), Den Bosch
• Jacomina Hendrikse (de Crom) de Kroon (58), Zevenbergen
• Dorothea Van Geem (30), Bazel, Kruibeke, O-Vl, BE
• Cornelia Hagenaars (79), Oud Gastel

• 1721 » Peter Pelham, English-American organist and composer († 1805)
• 1728 » Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer († 1804)
• 1742 » Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist († 1786)
• 1745 » Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Italian violinist and composer († 1818)
• 1748 » Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic († 1822)
• 1752 » Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer († 1813)
• 1779 » Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and inventor († 1853)
• 1787 » John Dobson, English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower († 1865)
• 1806 » Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician († 1838)
• 1813 » Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist († 1885)

• 1669 » Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
• 1674 » Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1609)
• 1706 » Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
• 1718 » Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk and cartographer (b. 1650)
• 1761 » Tarabai, Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram (b. 1675)
• 1793 » Yolande de Polastron, French-Austrian educator (b. 1749)
• 1798 » Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (b. 1729)
• 1830 » Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (b. 1757)
• 1854 » Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1799)
• 1858 » Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (b. 1804)

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. Aaltje
13. Grietje
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 6 » New York became the third 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.
• 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.
• July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
• August 3 » The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
• December 29 » American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

The temperature on December 9, 1778 was about 13.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken.