A Family Time Line
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| 950 | • Village of Ladbergen (spelled Lacbergeon) was mentioned in the records of Freckenhorst Convent. | |
| 1614-1648 | • Thirty Years' War - large areas of Germany were laid waste; about one third of the population was lost; general impoverishment. | |
| 1640-1688 | • Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia under the Great Elector, Friederich Wilhelm. | |
| 1648 | • The Peace of Westphalia was signed at Münster and Osnabrück. | |
| • Henrich Fiegenbaum born about this time at Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. | 1667-1668 | • 1667: War of Devolution - France invaded Netherlands & the Franche-Comté. • 1668: Oder-Spree Canal completed. • Buxtehude became organist of St. Marienkirke, at Lübeck. |
| • Gerdt Fiegenbaum born about this time in Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. | 1678 | • Treaties of Nijmegen ended the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678). |
| 1682 | • Weaving mill with 100 looms established in Amsterdam. | |
| 1688-1697 | • Louis XIV (France) waged war in the Palatinate; Baden-Baden was burnt; Heidelberg Castle was destroyed. | |
| 1701 | • War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714). • Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowned King Frederick I of Prussia. • Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1656-1730) founded the settlement that became Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. |
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| 1707 | • Grafschaft Tecklenburg sold to the King of Prussia. Ladbergen, home of the Fiegenbaum family, was now in Kreis Tecklenburg, Kingdom of Prussia. | |
| • The earliest record of the Fiegenbaums in the archives of the evangelical church in Ladbergen, Kreis Tecklenburg recorded that "die alte Fiegenbaum" died. This woman's maiden name and date of birth are not currently known. | 1715 | • Iron plant built near Fredericksburg, Virginia & town of Germanna established for workers, most of whom were German. |
| • Gerdt Fiegenbaum & Christine Meckstroth married at Ladbergen (3 April). | 1716 | • Holy Roman Empire declared war on Turkey. |
| • Johann J. Fiegenbaum & Anna Diemeiers married at Ladbergen (5 October). | 1731 | • Treaty of Vienna. • English factory workers forbidden to emigrate to American colonies. • Benjamin Franklin established circulating library at Philadelphia. |
| • Johann Jacob Fiegenbaum married Christine Schowe in Grafschaft Tecklenburg (26 September). | 1732 | • James Ogelthorpe was granted charter for colony in Georgia; founded Savannah in 1733. • New York built bowling green for ninepins (sport reached peak of popularity in 1840). |
| 1733 | • Flying shuttle for weaving looms was developed. | |
| 1740-48 | • War of Austrian Succession. | |
| • Anna Katharina Fiegenbaum & Johann Kötters married at Ladbergen (17 February). • Anna Elisabeth Fiegenbaum & Herman Wiethoff married in Grafschaft Tecklenburg (28 February). Herman adopted the Fiegenbaum surname. |
1743 | • French explorers reached the Rocky Mountains. • Treaty of Worms signed in September. • Thomas Jefferson was born on 13 April. • Toussaint Louverture was born on 20 May. |
| • 3 Fiegenbaums died within the span of 2 months in 1758 at Ladbergen. | 1756-1763 | • Seven Years' War - disease and famine were widespread in Westphalia, Prussia. The North American component of the conflict was called the French and Indian War (1754-1763). • Dorothea C. (Leporin) Erxleben was first woman to receive a medical degree from a German university (Halle). |
| • Johann Hermann Fiegenbaum & Catharina Elisabeth Grotholtmann married at Ladbergen (14 August). | 1763 | • Treaty of Paris marked the end of the Seven Years' War in Europe and the French and Indian War in North America. • Frederick the Great established village schools in Prussia. |
| 1764 | • The spinning jenny was invented in England. • settlement was established that would become known as the city of St. Louis, Missouri. • James Smithson born († 27 June 1929) - his bequest funded the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C. |
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| • Christina L. Fiegenbaum & Jürgen H. Fennemann married in Grafschaft Tecklenburg (20 October) | 1765 | • British Parliament passed the Stamp Act; American colonies protested. • The potato became popular crop in Europe. • The Bank of Prussia was founded. |
| • Anna Elsabein Fiegenbaum & Johann C. Suhrhenrich married in Grafschaft Tecklenburg (9 March). | 1768 | • J. C. Bach performed the first public piano solo heard in England. • Citizens of Boston, Massachusetts refused to quarter British troops. |
| • Hermann Wilhelm Fiegenbaum & Anna Elsabein Grotholtmann married in Ladbergen (5 August). | 1770 | • Boston Massacre. • James Cook mapped New Zealand. • Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI of France. |
| 1773 | • Captain James Cook was first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. • The Boston Tea Party. |
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| • Hermann H. Fiegenbaum & Anna C. K. Horstmeier married at Lienen (20 November) | 1785 | • Invention of steam-powered loom; and chlorine bleach. • Frederick II created Fürstenbund. • Regular stagecoach routes established in U.S.A between New York, Boston & Philadelphia. |
| 1790 | • 1st U.S. census was conducted on 2 August; population (13 states) was 3,929,214; population of city of New York was 33,131. • The District of Columbia established as the capital district of the United States. • Benjamin Franklin died. |
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| 1792 | • U.S. Post Office Department was established on 20 February. | |
| • Johann H. Fiegenbaum & Anna C. E. Nussemeier married at Ladbergen (5 June). | 1793 | • Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI executed. • U.S. Congress passed Fugitive Slave Act. • Cotton gin introduced; cotton industry revived. • Alexander McKenzie crossed Canada from coast to coast. |
| • Johann H. Fiegenbaum & Anna C. Kruse married (27 January). | 1797 | • John Adams inaugurated as U.S. President. • Charles Newbold patented first U.S. iron plow; many believed iron would poison the soil and increase weeds. |
| 1799 | • George Washington died at Mount Vernon, Virginia, on 14 December. | |
| 1800 | • U.S. Library of Congress was founded on 24 April. • Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy. • 2nd U.S. census was conducted on 4 August; population (16 states) was 5,308,483 (a 5.1% increase since 1790). |
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| • Mathias Gerber & Barbara Loos married in Germany (12 March). | 1804 | • Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of the French. • Beethoven composed Eroica Symphony. • Lewis and Clark begin their expedition to map the northwest U.S. on 14 May. • Alexander Hamilton died on 11 July after a duel with Aaron Burr. |
| 1806 | • Confederation of the Rhine established under Napoleon's protection. • Holy Roman Empire dissolved. • Prussia was defeated at Jena and Auerstedt. • Noah Webster (1758-1843) published his Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. |
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| 1807 | • Peace of Tilsit; Prussia ceded all possessions west of the Elbe River to France. • Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) was established under Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte. |
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| 1808/09-1810 | • The village of Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg, was part of the Grand Duchy of Berg (Großherzogtum Berg). The Grand Duchy, under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte "in personal union," was a client state of the First French Empire. | |
| • Johann H. Fiegenbaum & Catherina E. Hagen married in Ladbergen, Grand Duchy of Berg. | 1810 | • Napoleon annexed Hannover, Bremen, Hamburg, Lauenburg & Lübeck. • Krupps works opened in Essen. • 3rd U.S. census was conducted on 6 August; population (17 states) was 7,239,881 (a 36.4% increase since 1800). |
| 1811-1813 | • Ladbergen was part of the First French Empire in Arrondissement (Distrikt) Osnabrück in the Département de l’Ems-Supérieur (Departement der Ober-Ems). | |
| 1812 | • Napoleon's Grande Armée was defeated in Russia. • War of 1812 began in North America. • Louisiana was admitted as the 18th U.S. state. • A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck on 2 February near New Madrid, Missouri, U.S.A temporarily reversing the course of the Mississippi River. • Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter and guide to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, died. • Charles Dickens was born. |
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| 1813 | • Napoleon's troops were defeated in the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig on 16-19 October; the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I; an estimated 80,000 to 110,000 total killed or wounded. • U.S. forces captured York (Toronto); British troops captured Fort Niagara & burnt Buffalo, New York. |
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| 1814 | • Paris was captured in March by Coalition forces; Napoleon exiled to island of Elba. • Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Electorate of Hanover) elevated to Kingdom of Hanover in October by the Congress of Vienna. • British forces burnt the White House & other government buildings in Washington, D.C. on 24 August. • Francis S. Key wrote the U.S. national anthem, Star-Spangled Banner, while watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A harbor on 13-14 September. |
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| 1815 | • Emperor Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June near Waterloo, United Kingdom of the Netherlands. • Deutscher Bund (German Confederation) (1815-1866) was created. • City of Münster became capital of the new Province of Westphalia (Provinz Westfalen), Kingdom of Prussia. • Ladbergen, part of the First French Empire, was returned to the Kingdom of Prussia as part of the Province of Westphalia. |
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| 1818 | • U.S. Congress officially adopted the thirteen stars and stripes configuration of the national flag on 4 April. | |
| • Adolph H. Fiegenbaum & Christine E. Peterjohann married at Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia (25 October). | 1820 | • Missouri Compromise: Maine admitted to U.S. as free state; Missouri to be admitted to Union in 1821 as slave state. • 4th U.S. census was conducted on 7 August; population (23 states) was 9,638,453 (an increase of 33.1% since 1810). • Germany's population was 26 million. |
| • Anna K. E. Fiegenbaum & Wilhelm H. Schröer married at Ladbergen (17 October). | 1824 | • Beginning of German emigration to Brazil. • Portland cement patented. |
| • Hermann W. Fiegenbaum & Anna S. E. Wibbeler married at Ladbergen, (21 September) | 1828 | • Russo–Turkish War of 1828–1829 began. • U.S. slave Isabella Baumfree (c.1797-1883) escaped slavery in New York; became known as Sojourner Truth; in 1843 she joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry at Northampton, Massachusetts. |
| • Anna C. Fiegenbaum & Johann W. Wierwille married in the Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia (22 May). | 1829 | • King's College London was founded. • Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as the 7th U.S. president on 4 March. • Goyahkla (a.k.a. "Geronimo"), leader of the Chiricahua Apache, was born on 16 June († 17 February 1909) |
| 1830 | • 5th U.S. census was conducted on 1 June; population (24 states) was 12,860,702 (a 33.5% increase over 1820). | |
| • Anna E. Fiegenbaum & Johann H. W. Aufderhaar married at Ladbergen (27 July). | 1832 | • Black Hawk War in Illinois & Michigan Territory. • Cholera broke out in the city of New York & spread through the country, reaching the Pacific coast by 1834; thousands died. |
| 1833 | • Deutsche Evangelische Kirchegemeinde, the oldest evangelical church west of the Mississippi River, was founded at Femme Osage, St. Charles County, Missouri, U.S.A (known since 1957 as Femme Osage United Church of Christ). | |
| • Adolph H. & Christine (Peterjohann) Fiegenbaum and 5 children emigrated to U.S.A; landed at New Orleans, Louisiana in late June; arrived at St. Louis, Missouri about 4 July. | 1834 | • German Zollverein began. • Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished slavery in most, but not all, of the British Empire. • Cyrus H. McCormick received a U.S. patent for his reaper. |
| • Anna Christina E. (Fiegenbaum) & Hermann Heinrich Schröer emigrated to the U.S.A; settled first at Cincinnati, Ohio. | 1836 | • Mary Lyons founded Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mt. Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massachusetts. • Battle of the Alamo was fought 23 February - 6 March at San Antonio, Texas. • First & Second McGuffey's Readers were published in U.S.A. |
| • Anna C. E. Fiegenbaum & Johann H. W. Bierbaum married (13 December) in the Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia. | 1839 | • Prussia restricted child labor to maximum of 10 hour a day. • Charles Goodyear discovered a process for vulcanized rubber; he received a U.S. patent in 1844. • German Lutheran Church on Charrette founded on 27 February 1839 at Holstein, Missouri, U.S.A (until February 1848). |
| 1840 | • Der Deutsche Evangelische Kirchenverein des Westens (The German Evangelical Church Society of the West) was founded on 15 October 1840 at Gravois Settlement, Missouri. • 6th U.S. census was conducted on 1 June; population (26 states) was 17,063,353 (a 32.7% increase since 1830). |
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| • Johann H. & Catherina E. (Hagen) Fiegenbaum and their two youngest children; daughter Anna E. & Johann H. W. Aufderhaar and 3 children; daughter Anna C. E. & Johann H. W. Bierbaum and 1 child emigrated to U.S.A.; the bark Leontine arrived at Baltimore, Maryland on 28 June; families settled in eastern Missouri. | 1841 | • British forces occupied Hong Kong on 20 January during the First Opium War. • U.S. Congress passed the Preemption Act of 1841; it permitted most squatters who had lived on government land for at least 14 months to purchase up to 160 acres at a very low price (not less than $1.25 per acre) before the land was offered for sale to the public. |
| • Christina E. Fiegenbaum & Heinrich S. Borgmann married in St. Charles County, Missouri, U.S.A (24 February). | 1842 | • Fire destroyed about a quarter of the inner city of Hamburg, Germany, on 4-8 May. • In March, with Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that labor unions were legal organizations and had the right to organize a strike. • In March, Dr. Crawford Williamson Long was the first physician to use ether as anesthesia for surgery. |
| • Heinrich A. Fiegenbaum emigrated to the U.S.A. | 1843 | • Victoria, British Columbia, was founded in March by the Hudson's Bay Company as a trading post and fort. • The Tivoli Gardens opened in August at Copenhagen, Denmark. • A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was published in December. • Samuel Morse received $30,000 from the U.S. Congress to build an experimental telegraph line between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. |
| • Heinrich H. Fiegenbaum & Clara C. Kastenbudt married at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A (11 April). | 1847 | • Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft (Hamburg-America Line) was founded. • First U.S. postage stamps were issued in July. • U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott entered Mexico City on 14 September during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). |
1848 | • Revolutions of 1848 in the states of the German Confederation; afterwards, many, called Forty-Eighters, emigrated to the U.S.A. • Church at Holstein, Missouri, U.S.A changed its name in February to Die Deutsche Evangelische Kirche am Charette in Holstein (German Evangelical Church on Charrette) (until 30 December 1883). • Seneca Falls Convention at Seneca Falls, New York advocated women's rights. |
| • Wilhelm H. Fiegenbaum & Sophia Guseswelle married at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A (27 September). | 1849 | • St. Louis Fire on 17 May burned for 11 hours & destroyed large part of city & many steamboats; city was also in the midst of a cholera epidemic. • California Gold Rush began. |
| 1850 | • Das Deutsche Evangelische Predigerseminar (German Evangelical Preachers Seminary) opened near Marthasville, Missouri, U.S.A. This educational instituion of the German Evangelical Church later became the present-day Eden Theological Seminary, at Webster Groves, Missouri. • 7th U.S. census was conducted on 1 June; population (30 states) was 23,191,876 (a 35.9% increase over 1840). |
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| • Friedrich W. Fiegenbaum & Louisa Otto married at Wapello, Iowa, U.S.A (11 April). | 1852 | • Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published. • Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company got started in February at South Bend, Indiana. |
| • Hermann Fiegenbaum & Wilhelmine Wehrmann married at Holstein, Missouri, U.S.A (18 February). | 1853 | • Crimean War began in October (until February 1856); Florence Nightingale gained recognition for pioneering sanitary medical conditions. • Vincent van Gogh was born († 1890). • With the Gadsden Purchase in December, the U.S. bought land in the southwest from Mexico. |
| • Frederick F. B. Fiegenbaum & Anna K. E. Dammerman married at Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A (27 March) | 1856 | • 40,000-year-old human remains were discovered in the Neanderthal valley in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia. • Sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. in May; part of ani- & pro-slavery violence in Kansas Territory and western Missouri (1854-1858). • Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1874) received a U.S. patent for condensed milk, an important field ration for U.S. soldiers in the Civil War. • In May, Congressman Preston Brooks (South Carolina) beat Senator Charles Sumner (Massachusetts) with a cane in the U.S. Senate. • Booker T. Washington was born in April († 1915). |
| • Christina S. E. Fiegenbaum & Ernest W. Langebrake married (7 May). | 1857 | • Sepoy Rebellion began in India. • on 6 March 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens; that the U.S. Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories; that because slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court; and, that slaves, as chattels or private property, could not be taken away from their owners without due process. |
| • George Jacob Gerber and Franziska Müller married in Grand Duchy of Baden. | 1858 | • Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state. • Pike's Peak Gold Rush began in U.S. west. • French warships attacked and occupied Da Nang in Vietnam. • Max Planck born. • Theodore Roosevelt born. |
| • Christina Elizabeth Fiegenbaum & Heinrich Wwilhelm Katter married in Kingdom of Prussia (26 July). | 1860 | • Garibaldi captured Sicily & Naples. • Abraham Lincoln elected 16th U.S. President. • Pony Express began overland mail service in U.S.A from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California - 1,900 miles. • 8th U.S. census was conducted on 1 June; population (33 states) was 31,443,321 (a 35.6% increase since 1850); population in city of New York was 813,669; population in St. Louis was 160,773. |
| • Conrad Thoma, grandfather of Charlotte C. Brockmeyer, wounded at the Battle of Bull Run in the U.S. Civil War (21 July). | 1861 | • Emancipation of Russian serfs. • Civil War began in U.S.A. • Telegraph line opened between New York & San Francisco. |
| • Louis T. S. Fiegenbaum & Luella Shumway married at Auburn, Illinois, U.S.A (15 February). | 1862 | • Bismarck became Prussian Prime Minister. • U.S. Congress authorized first federal bank notes ("greenbacks"). • President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on 22 September. |
| 1866 | • Der Deutsche Evangelische Kirchenverein des Westens (The German Evangelical Church Society of the West) became Die Deutsche Evangelische Synode des Westens (The German Evangelical Synod of the West). | |
| • In 1869, Ernest Friedrich Wilhelm Fiegenbaum (1838-1911) and Sophia Elisabeth (Berlemann) Fiegenbaum (1830-1907) emigrated from Ladbergen, Germany to the Empire of Brazil. They were accompanied by five of their children, ages 15 to 1 year. | 1869 | • Completion of U.S. transcontinental railroad celebrated at Promontory, Utah on 10 May. |
| 1870 | • 9th U.S. census was conducted; population (37 states) was 38,558,371 (a 26.6% increase since 1860). | |
| 1871 | • German Evangelical Proseminary established at Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A. In 1919 the name was changed to Elmhurst Academy and Junior College. It is now known as Elmhurst College. • "The Great Chicago Fire" burned 8-10 October; 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) were destroyed. |
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| • Wilhelmine C. E. Fiegenbaum & Mathew Sexauer married at Ankeny, Iowa, U.S.A (13 June). | 1872/73 | • U.S. Amnesty Act of 1872 on 23 May 1872 pardoned most ex-Confederate soldiers. |
| • Caroline K. Fiegenbaum & John C. C. Steinmetz married at Oregon, Missouri, U.S.A (31 October). | 1873 | • Germany adopts Mark as unit of currency. • Epidemics of yellow fever, cholera & smallpox in many southern U.S. cities. |
| 1874 | • Severe frost in Ladbergen, Germany destroyed potato crop. • Civil marriage became compulsory in Germany. |
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| • Florentine W. Fiegenbaum & Heinrich F. C. Winter married in Warren County, Missouri, U.S.A (27 August). | 1875 | • Religious orders abolished in Prussia. • Matthew Webb was first to swim English Channel (21 hours, 45 minutes). |
| • Katharine A. H. Fiegenbaum & William H. Duesing married at Waymansville Indiana, U.S.A (30 August). | 1876 | • Sioux & Cheyenne warriors defeated George A. Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. • Mark Twain published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. • Alexander G. Bell received a U.S. patented for the telephone; cellular coverage was pathetic. |
| • Wilhelmina L. Fiegenbaum & August Starkebaum married in Warren County, Missouri, U.S.A (9 March). | 1877 | • Die Deutsche Evangelische Synode des Westens (The German Evangelical Synod of the West) became Die Deutsche Evangelische Synode von Nord-Amerika (German Evangelical Synod of North America). • In March, St. Louis formally seded from the County and became an independent city. • Russia declared war on Ottoman Empire. • Frozen meat was shipped from Argentina to Europe for the first time. |
| 1880 | • 10th U.S. census was conducted 1 June; women were permitted to be enumerators for the first time; population (38 states) was 50,189,209 (a 26% increase over 1870). | |
| • Lidya M. Fiegenbaum & Francis I. Howard married at Sac City, Iowa, U.S.A (27 February). | 1881 | • Poor harvest in Westphalia, Prussia brought famine. • Flogging abolished in British Army & Navy. |
| • George Louis Gerber & Charlotte Elisabetha Etling married at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A (19 October). | 1882 | • Chinese Exclusion Act (8 May) barred immigration from China to the U.S. for 10 years; it was finally repealed in 1943. • First Labor Day celebration held at New York City, U.S.A. • Town of Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A incorporated. |
| • William F. Fiegenbaum & Emma Duesing married at Fairview, Kansas, U.S.A (12 February). | 1883 | • Germany introduced sickness, accident and old age insurances. • U.S. reduced postal rate to 2¢ per half ounce. • Brooklyn Bridge opened on 24 May. |
| 1884 | • Church at Holstein, Missouri, U.S.A changed its name on 1 January to Deutsche Evangelische Immanuels Kirche (German Evangelical Immanuels Church) (until 25 June 1934). | |
| • Wilhelmina Fiegenbaum & Thomas Curry married at St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S.A (18 February). | 1885 | • Louis Pasteur & Emile Roux developed the first rabies vaccination. • Washington Monument dedicated at Washington, D.C. on 21 February (cornerstone was laid on 4 July 1848). • Statue of Liberty arrived in June in New York harbor from France (dedication was on 28 October 1886). • Canadian Pacific Railroad completed. |
| • Emma M. Fiegenbaum & Jacob Miller married at Wathena, Kansas, U.S.A (15 September). | 1886 | • Haymarket Square Affair in Chicago, Illinois on 4 May. |
| • Oscar B. Fiegenbaum & Dora Fischer married at Columbus, Indiana, U.S.A (17 March). | 1890 | • Battle of Wounded Knee fought in December in South Dakota, U.S.A. • Ladybugs imported into U.S. to control cottony cushion scale insects. • 11th U.S. census was conducted 1 June; population was 62,979,766 (a 25.5% increase over 1880); almost all of this census was destroyed in 1921 by fire in the Commerce Building in Washington, D.C. |
| • Emelie A. M. Fiegenbaum & George C. Meyer married at Old Fairview, Kansas, U.S.A (17 April). | 1892 | • Cyclone strikes Kansas, U.S.A - 31 die, 2 towns destroyed. • Boll weevils infest U.S. cotton fields. • Vacuum flask (thermos) was invented by Sir James Dewar. • Ellis Island Immigration Station began processing immigrants to the U.S. on 1 January. |
| • Friedrich Wilhelm Fiegenbaum & Henriette Caroline Amelia Starkebaum married in Lafayette County, Missouri, U.S.A (19 October). • Benjamin Friedrich Fiegenbaum & Myrtle Maud Darling married at Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A (20 December). |
1893 | • Benz & Ford both build automobiles. • Nansen began polar circumnavigation in Fram (1893-1896). • World Exposition in Chicago. • Ice hockey introduced into U.S. from Canada at Yale & John Hopkins Universities. • Dvorak composed Symphony No.9 (From the New World). |
| • Friedrich Hermann Adolph Fiegenbaum & Maria Friederieke Apwisch married in Lafayette County, Missouri (8 March). | 1899 | • Boer War began. • First Peace Conference at The Hague. • Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams. |
| • Heinrich F. Fiegenbaum & Nellie Blanche Montgomery married in Oregon, Missouri, U.S.A (3 October). | 1900 | • Life expectancy in U.S. was 48 years (males) & 51 years (females). • Boxer Uprising in China. • First test flight of Zeppelin. • World Exhibition in Paris. • Kodak introduced the "Brownie" camera in February. • 12th U.S. census was conducted on 1 June; population (45 states) was 76,212,168 (a 21% increase over 1890); city of New York = 3,437,202; St. Louis = 575,238; Cleveland = 381,768. |
| • Wilhelm Edward Fiegenbaum & Maude Mary Montgomery married at Oregon, Missouri, U.S.A (10 October). | 1901 | • Theodore Roosevelt became 26th U.S. President. • Marconi inaugurated wireless telegraphy. • Cause of yellow fever discovered. |
| • John Henry Francis Fiegenbaum & Frieda Elsie Brockhoff married in Jonesville, Indiana (5 March). • Oscar Bernhardt Henry Fiegenbaum & Sophia Tellman married in Bartholomew County, Indiana (21 April). |
1904 | • Russo-Japanese War began. • Baltimore, Maryland fire on 7 February destroyed 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. • First perfect major league baseball game in the "modern era" pitched by Cy Young. • World Exhibition in St. Louis. • New York cop arrested a woman for smoking a cigarette in public. |
| • Adeline Anna Sophia Fiegenbaum & Wilbur Henry Campsey married at Fairview, Kansas, U.S.A (15 February). | 1905 | • First neon lights sighted. • Novocain introduced. • First direct blood transfusion. • Einstein published Special Theory of Relativity. • United States Forest Service established on 1 February. |
| • August Henry Carl Fiegenbaum & Emma Johanna Apwisch married in Missouri (16 May). | 1906 | • Zuider Zee drainage program began. • San Francisco struck by earthquake. • Roald Amundsen traversed the Northwest Passage in Gjøa. |
| 1910 | • 13th U.S. census was conducted on 15 April; population (46 states) was 92,228,496 (a 21% increase since 1900). • Jack Johnson out-boxed Jamed Jeffries; race riots in U.S.A. • First commercial air freight plane flight in U.S.A - from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio. • Pneumonic plague in China, killed 40,000+. • Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) died on 21 April 21. |
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| • Dora Amelia Fiegenbaum & William F. Middendorf married at Fairview, Kansas, U.S.A (17 April). | 1912 | • HMS Titanic sank on 14 April; 15,000+ lives lost. • In March, the world learned that Raold Amundsen & his team had reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911. • New Mexico & Arizona admitted as the 47th & 48th states of the U.S.A. • Bread and Roses strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts. • Boston Red Sox won World Series at the new Fenway Park. • First aerial bombing. |
| • Mabel Belle Fiegenbaum & John Trimpe married at Fairview, Kansas, U.S.A (2 March). • Inez Maude Fiegenbaum & Arthur Ernest Ewing married at Central City, Nebraska, U.S.A (30 December). |
1913 | • World learned that Scott & 4 others had died in Antarctica in 1912. • Albert Schweitzer established a hospital at Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now the Gabonese Republic). • Ford Motor Co. set up moving assembly line in U.S.A. • Sixteenth Amendment to U.S. constitution introduced an income tax. |
| • Carl Frederich Fiegenbaum & Anna Rennetta Kruse married at Hiawatha, Kansas, U.S.A (3 June). • Martin Herman Fiegenbaum & Clara Louise Drewel married at Lexington, Missouri, U.S.A (6 June). |
1917 | • Balfour Declaration by Britain. • Russian Revolution. • U.S. declared war on Germany; Congress passed Selective Service Act, creating a military draft; canceled in November 1918. • Registered motor vehicles in U.S. numbered 4.8 million; 1.7 million cars built that year - avg. price = $750. |
| • Elsie Anna Dora Fiegenbaum & Ivan Ivory Cook married at Columbus, Indiana, U.S.A (2 July). | 1918 | • Russian Civil War. Czar & family executed. • World War I ended - 8.5 million dead, 21.2 million wounded, 7.75 million missing or POWs. • 1918 flu (Spanish Flu) pandemic, involving the H1N1 influenza virus, from June 1918 to December 1920; between 50 and 100 million died worldwide. |
| • Eugene Adolph Gerber & Anna Charlotte Springmeyer married at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A(15 November). | 1919 | • League of Nations established. • Mussolini founded Italian Fascist party. • Aus.tria abolished death penalty. • Weimar Republic established in Germany. |
| • Louis August Gerber & Charlotte Caroline Christine Brockmeyer married at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A (3 July). | 1920 | • Kapp Putsch in Berlin. • Olympic games at Antwerp. • 19th Amendment to U.S. constitution was ratified - prohibited sex-based restrictions on voting. • "Prohibition" - 19th Amendment to U.S. constitution went into effect on 17 January 1920 - national ban on sale & manufacture of alcohol; repealed in December 1933. • 14th U.S. census was conducted on 1 January; population (48 states) was 106,021,537 (a 15% increase over 1910). |
| • Frances Louise Fiegenbaum & Rueben J. Claussen married at Springfield, Nebraska, U.S.A (12 July). | 1921 | • Race Riot at Tulsa, Oklahoma. • Sacco & Vanzetti convicted of murder in Massachusetts. • Emergency Quota Act in U.S.A established national quotas limiting immigration. • U.S.A formally ended World War I. • Hyperinflation was rampant in Germany. • Weimar Republic made first payment of reparations. • Adolf Hitler became Führer of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi Party). |
| • Roberta Grace Fiegenbaum & Clyde Wwilliam Martin married at Sidney, Iowa, U.S.A (2 June). | 1923 | • Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich. 1 U.S. dollar = 4 million German Marks. • Martial law declared in Oklahoma, U.S.A in response to Ku Klux Klan. |
| • John Henry Fiegenbaum & Katherine Margarete Maun married at Mayview, Missouri (14 May). | 1924 | • Immigration Act of 1924 set racial quotas; restricted immigration of Southern & Eastern Europeans, and East Asians & Asian Indians. • Tornado in U.S.A destroyed 35 towns in Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky & Missouri; 800 dead, 3000 injured, 15,000 homeless. • Indian Citizenship Act (Snyder Act) granted full U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans; signed into law on 2 June 1924. |
| 1925 | • Die Deutsche Evangelische Synode von Nord-Amerika (German Evangelical Synod of North America) became Evangelical Synod of North America. • John Thomas Scopes was put on trial in Tennessee for teaching evolution in the schools of Dayton. |
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| • Dorothy WilhemeniaFiegenbaum & George Onek married at Atchison, Kansas (22 May). • Frances Montgomery Fiegenbaum & Lloyd Frederick Klein married at Geneva, Nebraska, U.S.A (3 August). |
1926 | • First flights by airship & plane over North Pole. • Permanent wave, for hair styles, was invented. • Robert Goddard launched first liquid fueled rocket. • Ernest Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises. • A. A. Milne published Winnie-the-Pooh. |
| 1930 | • 15th U.S. census was conducted on 1 April; population (48 states) was 123,202,624 (a 16.2% increas over 1920). • Richard Drew, of 3M, invented "Scotch Tape." |
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| • Edwin Friederich Fiegenbaum & Lucille Marie Caroline Rinne married at Mayview, Missouri, U.S.A (31 January). | 1931 | • Empire State Building completed. • Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion. • German banks collapse. • U.S. unemployment at 20-25%. |
| 1934 | • Evangelical Synod of North America merged with the Reformed Church in the United States to become the Evangelical and Reformed Church. • On 26 June 1934, the church at Holstein, Missouri changed its name to Immanuels Evangelical and Reformed Church (until 1957). |
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| 1940 | • 16th U.S. census was conducted on 1 April; population (48 states) was 132,164,569 (a 7.3% increase over 1930). | |
| • William Edward Fiegenbaum,II & Alice Louise Steffgen married at Medford, Oregon, U.S.A (15 November). | 1943 | • Siege of Leningrad lifted. Allies invaded Sicily; began round-the-clock bombing of Ruhr area of Germany. • Polio epidemic in U.S. killed 1,151. • J. Cousteau invented aqualung. |
| 1950 | • Village of Ladbergen, North Rhine-Westphalia, BRD celebrated its 1,000 year anniversary. • 17th U.S. census was conducted on 1 April; population (48 states) was 151,325,798 (a 14.5% increase over 1940); city of New York = 7,891,957; Chicago = 3,620,962; St. Louis = 856,796. |
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| 1957 | • Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches merged to form the United Church of Christ. • The church at Holstein, Missouri changed its name to Immanuels United Church of Christ. |
Sources
In addition to genealogical research into the Fiegenbaum and related families and the titles found on the Resources page, the following sources have been used in the creation of this timeline.
- Cowan, Tom & Jack Maguire. Timelines of African-American History. New York: Roundtable Press/Perigee, 1994.
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1968.
- Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975, 1979.
- Hazen-Hammond, SU.S.an. Timelines of Native American History. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1997.
- Urdang, Laurence, editor. The Timetables of American History.New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
- U.S. Census Bureau. Fast Facts. <http://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/fast_facts/> and linked URLs. May 2011. Accessed August 2011.
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