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Birthday March 7, 1784

• The temperature on March 7, 1784 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
• 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)
• In the year 1784: Source: Wikipedia
  • 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.
  • March 22 » The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
  • 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 17 » Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.
  • October 22 » Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1765 » Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography († 1833)
• 1785 » Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet († 1873)
• 1788 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and biochemist († 1878)
• 1792 » John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer († 1871)
• 1811 » Increase A. Lapham, American botanist and author († 1875)
• 1837 » Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer († 1882)