About the day » Saturday December 22, 1781Calender converter

• Antje - Pieters Staprade (Stoprade), Hindeloopen {UT} († 1819)
• Camille Henri Melchior de POLIGNAC, Versailles, 78646, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, Frankrijk († 1855)
• Betty Addison, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland († 1863)
• Elbert de Mots, Ermelo-Telgt († 1830)
• Anna Maria Beeving, Langbroek († 1810)
• Betsy Blodgett, Randolph, Orange, Vt
• Aafje Cornelis Bakker, Zuidhaffel (Texel)
• Elbert Aaltsen de Mots, Teigt (Ermelo) († 1830)
• Ariaantje van Drongelen, Cillaarshoek († 1782)
• Anson Tuttle, Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1863)

• Hugo Cornelisz van Trompen (77), brielle (zuid holland)
• Arnoldus Franssen (36), Neer, Limburg, Nederland
• Eugene Celistin Lison (55), Flobecq
• Aaltje Beerends (61)
• hugo cornelis van TROMPEN (77), brielle(ZH)
• Cornelis Van Wijngaarde (1), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Berends (61), Hall, Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Arnoldi van Haren (0), Oss
• Alida CERNÉ (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland,NL
• Aaltje Gerrits (66), Elspeet

• 1723 » Carl Friedrich Abel, German viol player and composer († 1787)
• 1765 » Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic († 1825)
• 1799 » Nicholas Callan, Irish priest and physicist († 1864)
• 1805 » John Obadiah Westwood, English entomologist and archaeologist († 1893)
• 1807 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic († 1873)
• 1819 » Franz Abt, German composer and conductor († 1870)
• 1819 » Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic († 1892)
• 1839 » John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician († 1917)
• 1850 » Victoriano Huerta, Mexican general and politician, 35th President of Mexico († 1916)
• 1853 » Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1917)

• 1681 » Richard Alleine, English minister and author (b. 1611)
• 1767 » John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
• 1788 » Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
• 1806 » William Vernon, English-American merchant (b. 1719)
• 1828 » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)
• 1853 » Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and politician. President (1853) (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Adriana
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Elizabeth
15. Aaltje
16. Jannetje

• 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 6 » In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
• February 3 » American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
• March 15 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
• September 5 » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
• September 6 » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
• November 29 » The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

The temperature on December 22, 1781 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.