About the day » Friday September 17, 1784Calender converter

• Arend van Prooijen, Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arendina Reeters, Amsterdam (Westerkerk) († 1823)
• Elisabeth Müller, Reddighausen, Kreis Frankenberg († 1837)
• Geertrudis van Beurden, Udenhout
• Geert Hietkamp, Winterswijk († 1785)
• Cornelia Koolmees, Moordrecht
• Agnes Dorothea Charlotte van Koppelow, Mentin († 1871)
• Arend Prooijen van, Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aren Prooijen, sommelsdijk (goeree overflakkee) († 1858)
• Carolus Vandeweghe, Tielt († 1879)

• Abraham APON (64), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Hendrina Koenen, Nijmegen
• Joannes Peter Hamers (52), Tilburg
• Jan Eilderts (50), Bunde
• Hermannus Lammers (65), Schepsdorf, Germany
• Ariaentie Sweserijn (27), Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jacobus van HAM, Scherpenheuvel, 3270, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Arij Westmaas (48), Suriname
• Joannes Hamers (52), Tilburg,Brabant (North),Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Gers (33), Merksplas, Antwerpen België

• 1743 » Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and political scientist († 1794)
• 1771 » Johann August Apel, German jurist and author († 1816)
• 1773 » Jonathan Alder, American captain and farmer († 1849)
• 1783 » Nadezhda Durova, Russian soldier († 1866)
• 1797 » Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist († 1821)
• 1817 » Herman Adolfovich Trautscohold, German geologist and paleontologist († 1902)
• 1819 » Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African general and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic († 1901)
• 1820 » Émile Augier, French playwright († 1889)
• 1820 » Earl Van Dorn, Confederate general († 1863)
• 1821 » Arthur Saint-Léon, French choreographer († 1870)

• 1721 » Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1645)
• 1762 » Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687)
• 1771 » Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian author and poet (b. 1721)
• 1803 » Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer and director (b. 1766)
• 1808 » Benjamin Bourne, American judge and politician (b. 1755)
• 1817 » Jacques Bernard d'Anselme, French general (b. 1740)
• 1836 » Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist and author (b. 1748)
• 1852 » Francisco Javier Echeverría, Mexican businessman and politician. President (1841) (b. 1797)
• 1858 » Dred Scott, American slave (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Charles Robert Cockerell, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1788)

• 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 September 17, 1784 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.