About the day » Thursday March 11, 1779Calender converter

• Apollonia Magnus, Lamswaarde, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aleidis BLOM, Nijkerk, 1687, Gelderland, Nederland († 1815)
• Antonientje de Zeeuw († 1862)
• Adrianus Torfs, Berlaar
• Catharina Reuvekamp, Den Haag († 1819)
• Antje (Joanna) Lutterbeek, Gouda († 1854)
• Wilhelmina Koster, Zwartewaal
• Baukje Eetes (Yetes) Wiersma, Wijgeest, Oudwoude, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland († 1847)
• Baukje Eetes Wiersma, Wygeest
• Anna Gertrudis Willems, Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland

• Elisabeth Louise de Surmont van Vlooswijk (54)
• Aafjen Jans Buiser (84), Noordwolde
• Abia Rogers (70), Waterford, New London, Connecticut, United States
• Jacobus Hanzes Wisman, Leeuwarden
• Arnolda Wolswijk, Vleuten
• Fedje (Tietje) Wilties (61)
• Agniesje Roorda (70), Haarlem
• Bernardus Alefs Haverdink (71), Leeuwarden
• Elisabeth Louise de Surmont van Vlooswijck (54)
• Cornelia Sijmons (43), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1738 » Benjamin Tupper, American general († 1792)
• 1745 » Bodawpaya, Burmese king († 1819)
• 1785 » John McLean, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Postmaster General († 1861)
• 1787 » Ivan Nabokov, Russian general († 1852)
• 1806 » Louis Boulanger, French Romantic painter, lithographer and illustrator († 1867)
• 1811 » Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer († 1877)
• 1815 » Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer († 1879)
• 1818 » Marius Petipa, French-Russian dancer and choreographer († 1910)
• 1819 » Henry Tate, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Tate & Lyle († 1899)
• 1822 » Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic († 1900)

• 1722 » John Toland, Irish philosopher and theorist (b. 1670)
• 1759 » John Forbes, Scottish general (b. 1710)
• 1820 » Benjamin West, American-English painter and academic (b. 1738)
• 1851 » George McDuffie, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
• 1851 » Marie Louise Coidavid, Queen of Haiti (b. 1778)
• 1854 » Willard Richards, American journalist and religious leader (b. 1804)
• 1863 » Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
• 1869 » Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1803)
• 1870 » Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (b. 1786)
• 1874 » Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician (b. 1811)

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. Elizabeth
12. Antje
13. Aaltje
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)
• February 14 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
• June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
• July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
• July 16 » American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
• 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.

The temperature on March 11, 1779 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.