About the day » Monday December 20, 1784Calender converter

• Arie van Leeuwen, Leimuiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Willemse Beije, Haamstede († 1785)
• Batje Jacobs van de Werfhorst, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 1860)
• Batjen Jacobs van de WERFHORST, Oldebroek, Overijssel, Nederland († 1860)
• Ardina Damen (Daamen), Nuenen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1852)
• Anna Maria Catharina Carmeliet - Karmeliet, Vlezenbeek († 1865)
• Aafje (1) Groot, Andijk, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1785)
• Batje Jacobs Werfhorst van de, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 1860)
• Batje Jacobsdr van de Werfhorst, Oldebroek († 1860)
• Anna Catharina Opdebeeck († 1785)

• Anna van den Haak, Aarlanderveen, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Angelina Geurden(S), Gulpen, Limburg, Nederland
• Angelina Geurdem (68), Gulpen, Limburg, Nederland
• Elisabeth Van Malderen (33), Opwijk
• Eppo TONKES (59), Meeden, Muntendam, Menterwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Angelina (Engel) Geurden, Gulpen
• Amos Brand (49)
• Eetje Eenjes Eppens (91), Meeden (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Adriana Barends Harkes, Den Helder, Nederland
• Cornelis Antonius Priems (30), Netherlands

• 1740 » Arthur Lee, American physician and diplomat († 1792)
• 1786 » Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer († 1853)
• 1792 » Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French painter and educator († 1845)
• 1806 » Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) († 1871)
• 1812 » Laura M. Hawley Thurston, American poet and educator († 1842)
• 1838 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian, author, and educator († 1926)
• 1841 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1932)
• 1861 » Ferdinand Bonn, German actor († 1933)
• 1861 » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter († 1926)
• 1865 » Elsie de Wolfe, American actress and interior decorator († 1950)

• 1722 » Kangxi, emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)
• 1740 » Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675)
• 1765 » Louis, dauphin of France (b. 1729)
• 1768 » Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)
• 1783 » Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729)
• 1812 » Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788)
• 1820 » John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750)
• 1856 » Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820)
• 1862 » Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)

• 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 14 » American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
• March 11 » The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
• April 9 » The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
• June 4 » Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
• August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
• October 22 » Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

The temperature on December 20, 1784 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken.