About the day » Wednesday October 18, 1780Calender converter

• alida staverman, amsterdam, noord holland, nederland
• Arnoldus Wentholt, Wageningen († 1851)
• Adriana van Amerongen, Werkhoven († 1863)
• Arentje van Heukelom, Tuil, Gelderland, Nederland
• Degrande, Oostkamp,West Vlaanderen,Belgium († 1780)
• Adriana de Wit, Steenbergen
• Adriana van WESEL, Steenbergen, 4233, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1856)
• Anderson Ellis, Rowan County, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1832)
• Aart van de Pol, Elspeet († 1780)
• Anna Maria Miseur, Sterrebeek, 1933, België († 1842)

• Antonius van 't Loo (28), Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hendrikje Hendriks' Vos (83), Enkhuizen
• Arie Janszn Nederveld (40), Amstelveen
• Ary Reyendam (69), Rotterdam
• David Sleeper (58)
• Ary (Adrianus) Crynen Fraijman (70), Wijk aan Zee
• Everardus Bus (Busch) (24), Westervoort, Niederlande
• Degrande (0)
• Dirck Froger (74), amsterdam, Nederland
• Henricus HENDRIKS (42), Beesel, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1706 » Baldassare Galuppi, Italian harpsichord player and composer († 1785)
• 1741 » Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author († 1803)
• 1777 » Heinrich von Kleist, German author and poet († 1811)
• 1785 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet († 1866)
• 1792 » Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and historian († 1853)
• 1804 » Mongkut, Thai king († 1868)
• 1822 » Midhat Pasha, Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1883)
• 1831 » Frederick III, German Emperor († 1888)
• 1836 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz († 1911)
• 1850 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic († 1935)

• 1678 » Jacob Jordaens, Belgian painter illustrator (b. 1593)
• 1739 » António José da Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
• 1744 » Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
• 1770 » John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721)
• 1775 » Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
• 1817 » Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French pianist and composer (b. 1763)
• 1865 » Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1871 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
• 1876 » Francis Preston Blair, American journalist (b. 1791)
• 1886 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)

• 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)
• March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
• March 17 » American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
• May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
• October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
• November 4 » The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.
• December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

The temperature on October 18, 1780 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.