About the day » Wednesday May 24, 1780Calender converter

• Geessien Klaassens Veldman, Muntendam († 1864)
• Anthonia Rijnders (Reynders
• Francijntje Schenk, Zwartewaal († 1831)
• Asa WATSON (#064), South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten († 1855)
• Adriana van der Hoeven, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Elizabeth van Biljouw, Oisterwijk († 1830)
• Franciscus VANDERLINDEN, Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België
• Cornelis Heindijk, Geervliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1836)
• Ana Clara Barbosa, Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Geertruid Ricken, Dinxperlo

• Catharina Steyaert (46), Ruiselede
• Arnoldus Schoenaers (70), Hoepertingen (gem Borgloon)
• Catharina Steyaert (46), Ruiselede,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Dirk Huibertsz de Jong, Streefkerk
• Anna Maria Van Soom (67), Kasterlee, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Elisabeth De Greef (63), Buken
• Gillis 't Grein (75), Zuid-Beijerland, Korendijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hannah Stearns (76), Plainfield, Windham Co., CT
• Anna Maria Van Soom (67), Kasterlee
• Berendina van RENSEN (76), Tiel, 1822, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1743 » Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician († 1793)
• 1789 » Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (d.1828)
• 1794 » William Whewell, English priest and philosopher († 1866)
• 1803 » Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist († 1866)
• 1810 » Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar († 1874)
• 1816 » Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter († 1868)
• 1819 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom († 1901)
• 1830 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic († 1897)
• 1855 » Arthur Wing Pinero, English actor, director, and playwright († 1934)
• 1861 » Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta († 1940)

• 1665 » Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Spanish Franciscan abbess and mystic (b. 1602)
• 1734 » Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1792 » George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718)
• 1806 » John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723)
• 1843 » Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1848 » Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (b. 1797)
• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)

• 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.
• September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf Massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
• September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
• October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
• October 10 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
• December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

The temperature on May 24, 1780 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen.