About the day » Friday November 17, 1786Calender converter

• (1) Anna Wendelina Broens, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1820)
• Anna Berry, Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1847)
• Adriana Janssens, Mierlo († 1831)
• Adriaan HAGENAARS, Halsteren,Noord-Brabant,Netherlands († 1853)
• Amelia Desnouck, Ardooie West Vlaanderen België († 1849)
• Aaltje Jans Meester, Giethoorn († 1864)
• Amasa Kendall, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1870)
• Arie Greving, Amsterdam
• Catharina van Lith, Wadenoijen († 1845)
• Allegonda Stadhouders, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1857)

• Anna Maria AERTS (60), Olmen,2491,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
• Friedrich Heinrch Otto (1), unbekannt
• Catharina Peters, Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Elisabet Tilemanse Bosch van den (55), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirck Tammerijn (92), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabet Adriaans Goedhart (2), Besoijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Egberdina Freerks, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Almodis Upphoff (88), Dersum
• Elisabeth Goedhart (2), Besoijen
• Apollinaire MEYER (0), Bourbach-le-Bas, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE

• 1749 » Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning († 1841)
• 1753 » Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist († 1815)
• 1755 » Louis XVIII, king of France († 1824)
• 1765 » Jacques MacDonald, French general († 1840)
• 1769 » Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1818)
• 1790 » August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer († 1868)
• 1793 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic († 1865)
• 1816 » August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer and historian († 1876)
• 1827 » Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian journalist and poet († 1895)
• 1835 » Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio († 1915)

• 1713 » Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
• 1747 » Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668)
• 1768 » Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
• 1776 » James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710)
• 1780 » Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1720)
• 1796 » Catherine the Great, of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1808 » David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (b. 1721)
• 1812 » John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (b. 1738/1739)
• 1818 » Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
• 1835 » Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (b. 1758)

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

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

• 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 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
• December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

The temperature on November 17, 1786 was about -1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken ijzelig.