About the day » Sunday February 7, 1779Calender converter

• Anna Maria Thijs, Aartselaar, 2630, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1781)
• Adriana van der Linden, Oud-Beijerland († 1844)
• 'Jean' Nicolas LAMBOTTE, Boëlhe, 4250, Liège, Belgique († 1837)
• Anna Catharina Mortelmans, Hove, Antwerpen, België
• Adriaantje Bastiaans Van Der LINDEN, Oud-Beijerland († 1844)
• Anna Catharina Reijnen, Echt († 1818)
• Agnes Bernardi Schaijk van, Berghem, 3317, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1815)
• Agnes van Schaijk, Berghem († 1815)
• Allegonda Hobbelen, Oirschot, Nederland († 1855)
• Anna Millard, Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States

• Anna Martha Vanden Bussche (32), Torhout,8820,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Anne Bourgeois Bourqueois (73), La Rochelle, Aunis, France
• Joanna Antony Francis Bernaerts (Benders) (60), Lieshout
• Abraham Hage (0)
• Catharina Elisabeth FRIJNS (12), Schinnen, Gemeente Schinnen, Limburg, Nederland
• Fleurie DAMOUR (30), Noirmoutier-en-l'île, 85330, France
• joanna antony francis bernaerts(benders) (60), lieshout
• Geneviève Gueroult (80), Canouville (F)
• Jan REWERTS (52), Kloosterburen, De Marne, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius Vanden Bussche (0), Beveren (Roeselare),, West-Vlaanderen, België

• 1722 » Azar Bigdeli, Iranian anthologist and poet († 1781)
• 1726 » Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter († 1766)
• 1741 » Henry Fuseli, Swiss-English painter and academic († 1825)
• 1758 » Benedikt Schack, Czech tenor and composer († 1826)
• 1796 » Thomas Gregson, English-Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (baptism date; d. 1874)
• 1802 » Louisa Jane Hall, American poet, essayist, and literary critic († 1892)
• 1804 » John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company († 1886)
• 1812 » Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic († 1870)
• 1825 » Karl Möbius, German zoologist and ecologist († 1908)
• 1834 » Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe, French architect († 1895)

• 1736 » Stephen Gray, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1666)
• 1779 » William Boyce, English organist and composer (b. 1711)
• 1799 » Qianlong Emperor of China (b. 1711)
• 1801 » Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and academic (b. 1726)
• 1819 » August Wilhelm Hupel, German-Estonian linguist and author (b. 1737)
• 1823 » Ann Radcliffe, English author (b. 1764)
• 1837 » Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
• 1849 » Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (b. 1797)
• 1862 » Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787)
• 1864 » Vuk Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)

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.
• March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
• July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
• August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

The temperature on February 7, 1779 was about 8.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen donker.