About the day » Monday November 22, 1779Calender converter

• Anne Preece, Worthen, Shrops, Eng
• Elisabetha Joosten, Heeze, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Elisabeth Henricus Joosten, Heeze († 1825)
• Annigjen Hendriks Wind, Giethoorn, province of Overijssel († 1844)
• Elisabeth Van Deusen, Fonda, Montgomery County, New York, United States of America († 1825)
• Christina Willemse Tolboom, Hoogland († 1844)
• Anna Maria Verhaegen, Putte, 2580, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Catharina Thijsen, Maarheeze
• Anna Maria Angela Gilbers, Lohne, Lingen, 49835, Duitsland
• Christina (Stijntje) Tolboom, Hoogland († 1844)

• Geertrui de Haard, Amsterdam
• Gerrit Tamisz Kuijper
• Evertje Jansen (64), Barneveld
• Dorothy Ambrose (30)
• Geertje Jans (31), Nieuw Weerdinge, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bancris ( Bancratius) Pietersz Hofland (42), Wijk aan Zee en Duin, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Gertrudis Maria Adriana von Hertefeldt tot Magerhorst (40), Steenderen,Gemeente Bronckhorst,Gelderland,Netherlands,huis Baak
• Col. William Saunders (61), Fairfield, Virginia
• Cornelia Hensen (4)
• Charlotte Caroline Ernestine von Arnim (69)

• 1728 » Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden († 1811)
• 1744 » Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States († 1818)
• 1780 » Conradin Kreutzer, German composer († 1849)
• 1780 » José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico († 1834)
• 1787 » Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar († 1823)
• 1808 » Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group († 1892)
• 1814 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California († 1893)
• 1819 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet († 1880)
• 1820 » Katherine Plunket, Irish supercentenarian († 1932)
• 1824 » Georg von Oettingen, Estonian-German physician and ophthalmologist († 1916)

• 1694 » John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)
• 1697 » Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635)
• 1710 » Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1637)
• 1718 » Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)
• 1758 » Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680)
• 1774 » Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (b. 1725)
• 1794 » John Alsop, American merchant and politician (b. 1724)
• 1813 » Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759)
• 1819 » John Stackhouse, English botanist and phycologist (b. 1742)
• 1871 » Oscar James Dunn, African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (b. 1826)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Joanna
9. Adriana
10. Trijntje
11. Antje
12. Aaltje
13. Elizabeth
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
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)
• January 11 » Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
• March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
• June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

The temperature on November 22, 1779 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.