Wheeler/Ethridge/Zeller/Dunkin Family Tree » Josiah Franklin (1656-1745)

Personal data Josiah Franklin 


Household of Josiah Franklin

He had a relationship with Abiah Folger.


Child(ren):

  1. Benjamin Franklin  1706-1790

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Josiah Franklin

Josiah Franklin
1656-1745


Abiah Folger
1667-1752

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790

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Birthday December 23, 1656

  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1656: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 23 » Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
    • July 21 » The Raid on Málaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
    • July 28 » Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.
    • July 30 » Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
    • October 14 » The US state of Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Day of death January 16, 1745

  • The temperature on January 16, 1745 was about 3.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken. 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 1745: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 11 » War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch–Hanoverian army.
    • June 4 » Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
    • July 9 » French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
    • September 21 » A Hanoverian army is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
    • November 8 » Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
    • December 4 » Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising.


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