About the day » Tuesday February 18, 1783Calender converter

• Aaltje van Alphen († 1852)
• Bocke Tjeerds Wiersma, Brantgum, Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1850)
• Aart Jonker, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1823)
• Gabrielle BOUCHY, Sanry-Sur-Nied (57), France († 1783)
• Bernardus VAN MELLAERTS, Bekkevoort, 24008, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique († 1783)
• Anna Barbara Himmelreich-Albers († 1849)
• Antonia "Tonia" Opstal, Schalkwijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1834)
• Alexander Souren, Klimmen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Andres Georg Caspar OBERHOFF, Soest (D)
• Dominicus de Roeck, Beveren-Waas

• Cornelis Cornelis Gerrit KOPPENOL (44), Hoogvliet, 6068, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Henricus Wijnhoff, Groesbeek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Hendrick Wijnhoff (58), Qualburg, Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Catharina Lindelauff (61), Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Henrich Klein (6), Schwarzenau, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Gerben Sipkes, Idaarderadeel
• Georg Wilhelm Lauber (4), Girkhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Cornelia Jansdr van der Steen (42), Charlois, Nederland
• Geertje Claas (53), Arnemuiden
• Henricus Wijnhoff (58), Groesbeek

• 1732 » Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer († 1809)
• 1745 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery († 1827)
• 1814 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician († 1900)
• 1817 » Lewis Armistead, American general († 1863)
• 1836 » Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi († 1886)
• 1838 » Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1916)
• 1846 » Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager († 1904)
• 1848 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist († 1933)
• 1849 » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician († 1906)
• 1850 » George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor († 1934)

• 1695 » William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)
• 1712 » Louis, Dauphin of France, (b. 1682)
• 1743 » Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1667)
• 1748 » Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
• 1772 » Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
• 1778 » Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
• 1780 » Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
• 1788 » John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
• 1803 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
• 1851 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Trijntje
9. Joanna
10. Grietje
11. Adriana
12. Neeltje
13. Aaltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
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 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
• June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
• July 25 » American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
• November 4 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
• November 29 » A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
• December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.

The temperature on February 18, 1783 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.