Schaeffer-Massung Family Tree » Maria Susanne FRANZ (1698-1775)

Day of marriage February 4, 1721

• The temperature on February 4, 1721 was about 7.0 °C. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1721: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 6 » The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.
  • March 24 » Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
  • April 4 » Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
  • April 26 » A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
  • August 18 » The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
  • October 22 » Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.

Day of death November 29, 1775

• The temperature on November 29, 1775 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
  • June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
  • July 26 » The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
  • October 27 » King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • December 31 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1759 » Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1687)
• 1780 » Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1717)
• 1797 » Samuel Langdon, American pastor, theologian, and academic (b. 1723)
• 1830 » John Maurice Hauke, Polish general (b. 1775)
• 1846 » Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1778)
• 1847 » Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (b. 1802)