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Living
World Events
When
I started my quest for family names, I got to thinking about these
dates. William Hall coming to Indiana around 1807. Indiana wasn't even a
state at that time. And then I got to thinking about when the Mayflower
got here. Did I have relatives in America in 1620?
So
I decided I needed a little history lesson to put all these dates into
some kind of context. What were these people living through? The
following is some of what I found out.
|
| Date |
Event |
Relative |
| 1096 |
First
Crusade |
Baldwin
I, Lord Des Marets is fighting in the First Crusade |
| 1456 |
Halley's
Comet |
Reginald
des Marets, Esquire, Doctor of Laws, was magistrate at Cambray in
France |
| 1492 |
Columbus
sailed the ocean blue |
|
| 1507 |
America
was named |
|
| 1531 |
Halley's
Comet |
ancestors
in Württemberg |
| 1580s |
England
trying to establish colonies in America |
|
| 1582 |
Gregorian
calendar adopted |
|
| 1607 |
Halley's
Comet |
|
| 1619 |
first
Africans brought to America by the Dutch |
|
| 1621 |
1st
Thanksgiving |
|
| 1634 |
|
Crafton
family at Jamestown, Virginia settlement |
| 1626 |
New
Amsterdam founded by the Dutch (now Manhattan Island) |
|
| 1647 |
|
Mandeville
family in America (Demerest line) |
| 1648 |
|
Bice/Buys
family in America |
| 1648 |
|
Andrew
Monroe (Munro) banished to America |
| 1663 |
|
desMarets
family in America |
| 1674 |
Dutch
gave up their North American holdings to England |
|
| 1682 |
Halley's
Comet |
John
Awbrey family in America |
| 1712-1716 |
Schwaigern
Witch Trials in Württemberg |
Johann
Michael Dieter is mayor of Schwaigern |
| 1738 |
|
Neukirch
family is in America |
| 1738 |
|
Kinder
family in America |
| 1750s |
France
and Britain were at war in Europe |
|
| ~1751 |
|
Peter
Berry in America |
| 1754-1763 |
French
and Indian War |
|
| 1759 |
Halley's
Comet |
|
| 1761 |
|
Ferguson
family is in America |
| 1775-1783 |
American
Revolution |
at
least 8 direct line grandfathers are fighting this war |
| 1776 |
USA
is born |
|
| 1780s |
|
Low
Dutch Company settle in Kentucky - Bice and Demaree families -
land was purchased from Squire Boone |
| 1787 |
U.S.
Constitution was adopted |
|
| 1789 |
George
Washington becomes president |
Bear
family is in America |
| 1790 |
first
U.S. Census taken |
|
| 1792 |
Kentucky
becomes a state |
Robins
family in Kentucky |
| 1790s |
|
Adams
family is in Woodford County, Kentucky |
| 1803 |
Lewis
and Clark are in Clarksville, Indiana |
|
| ~1807 |
|
William
and Nancy Hall move to Jefferson County, Indiana |
| 1811 |
Cumberland
Road from Maryland to Illinois built |
|
| 1812-1814 |
War
of 1812 |
Kinder
Fergus was in the Kentucky Militia |
| 1816 |
Indiana
becomes a state |
Michael
Berry family moves to Clark County, Indiana |
| 1819 |
|
Dennis
Bice in Kentucky |
| 1831 |
|
Crafton
and Bates families are moving to Kentucky from Virginia |
| 1834 |
|
McCutchen
family living in Scott County, Indiana |
| 1835 |
Halley's
Comet |
Richard
and Agnes Lawson come to America |
| 1845-1851 |
Irish
Potato Famine |
|
| 1849 |
height
of the Gold Rush in California |
|
| 1850-1870 |
railroads
being built across America |
my
relatives were settled in Indiana and Kentucky by this time |
| 1861-1865 |
Civil
War |
at
least 3 of my direct line grandfathers service in this war |
| 1902 |
|
Christine
Klukes Bohnet (my 3-great grandmother) came to America on the ship
Moltke |
| 1906 |
|
Maria
Klain (my 3-great grandmother) came to America on the ship Grosser
Kurfurst |
| 1907 |
|
Mehrer
and Klain families arrive at Ellis Island on the ship Cambroman |
| 1910 |
Halley's
Comet |
|
| 1914-1918 |
World
War I |
|
| 1939-1945 |
World
War II |
both
of my grandfathers served in the army during this war |
| 1950-1953 |
Korean
War |
my
father served in the Air Force |
| 1986 |
Halley's
Comet |
I
was 15 years old. |
| 2061 |
Halley's
Comet's return |
I
will be 90 years old. |
