About the day » Wednesday February 18, 1778Calender converter

• Antonius Verstappen, Beek en Donk († 1855)
• alberte jh. LECLERCQ, Dour (Belgium) Hainaut
• Bastiaan Keus, Scheveningen († 1780)
• Alexandrine Blechamps, Calais († 1855)
• Anna Antonia Van Den Heeden, Aalst, Alost, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1855)
• Bandert (?) Van der veen
• Anna Catharina Schmidt, Ransbach
• Antje Ploeg
• Adriana Cornelis Turelinckx, Tilburg († 1835)
• Antje Ploeg, Noordwijk binnen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1778)

• Claes Albertsen Klappe (88), Emmeloord,Gemeente Noordoostpolder,Flevoland,Nederland
• Geertje Dral (29), Andyk, N.Holl, Nederland
• Claes Albertsen (88), Emmeloord, Flevoland, Nederland
• Cornelia Pietersdr. Snaijer (60), Rockanje
• Hedwig Brigitte Magdalena van Krassow (41), Karlsburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Hedwig Brigitte Magdalene von Krassow (41), Karlsburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Allemagne
• Anna Maria de Bruijckere (1), Maldegem (B)
• Claes Albertsen Klappe (88), Emmeloord
• Claes Jansz (88), Emmeloord
• Geertje Jans Dral (29), Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1732 » Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer († 1809)
• 1745 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery († 1827)
• 1814 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician († 1900)
• 1817 » Lewis Armistead, American general († 1863)
• 1836 » Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi († 1886)
• 1838 » Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1916)
• 1846 » Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager († 1904)
• 1848 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist († 1933)
• 1849 » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician († 1906)
• 1850 » George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor († 1934)

• 1695 » William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)
• 1712 » Louis, Dauphin of France, (b. 1682)
• 1743 » Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1667)
• 1748 » Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
• 1772 » Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
• 1778 » Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
• 1780 » Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
• 1788 » John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
• 1803 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
• 1851 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)

• 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 9 » Rhode Island becomes the fourth US 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.
• July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
• July 4 » American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
• September 17 » The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe.

The temperature on February 18, 1778 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw.