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Personal data Gottfried von Schmettau 


Household of Gottfried von Schmettau

He is married to Anna Margarethe Riese.

They got married on June 11, 1675 at Brzeg / Brieg, Pologne, he was 23 years old.


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Historical events

Birthday March 22, 1652

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    Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1652: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 6 » At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
    • May 18 » Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.
    • June 20 » Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
    • August 16 » Battle of Plymouth: Inconclusive naval action between the fleets of Michiel de Ruyter and George Ayscue in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
    • September 7 » Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
    • December 10 » Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.

Day of marriage June 11, 1675

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1675: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 5 » Battle of Colmar: The French army beats Brandenburg.
    • August 11 » Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
    • October 29 » Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
    • November 2 » Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
    • November 11 » Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
    • December 19 » The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.

Day of death February 7, 1703

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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1703: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
    • May 27 » Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
    • July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
    • July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
    • December 7 » The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120mph, and 9,000 people die.
    • December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.


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