A Family Time Line
| Family Event | Date | World Event |
| 1614-1648 | Thirty Years' War. Large areas of Germany are laid waste. About one third of the population is lost. General impoverishment. | |
| 1640-1688 | Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia under the Great Elector, Friederich Wilhelm | |
| 1648 | The Peace of Westphalia, signed in Münster and Osnabrück | |
| Henrich Fiegenbaum born about this time in Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. | 1667-68 |
1667: War of Devolution; France invades Netherlands. 1668: Oder-Spree Canal completed. Buxtehude becomes organist of St. Marienkirke, Lübeck. |
| 1678-1681 | Louis XIV (France) conquers parts of Alsace and Lorraine. | |
| Gerdt Fiegenbaum born about this time in Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. | 1678 | Robert de La Salle explores the Great Lakes in North America. |
| 1682 | Weaving mill with 100 looms established in Amsterdam. | |
| 1688-1697 | Louis XIV (France) wages war in the Palatinate. Baden-Baden burnt; Heidelberg Castle 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) founds the settlement that becomes Detroit, Michigan, USA. | |
| 1707 | Grafschaft (Countship) Tecklenburg sold to the King of Prussia. Ladbergen, home of the Fiegenbaum family, is now in Kreis Tecklenburg, Prussia. | |
| The earliest record of the Fiegenbaums in the archives of the evangelical church in Ladbergen, Germany records that "die alte Fiegenbaum" died. This woman's maiden name and date of birth are not known at this time. | 1715 | Iron plant built near Fredericksburg, Virginia & town of Germanna established for workers, most of whom are German. |
| Gerdt Fiegenbaum & Christine Meckstroth marry in Ladbergen, Westphalia, Prussia (3 Apr). | 1716 | Holy Roman Empire declares war on Turkey. |
| Johann J. Fiegenbaum & Anna Diemeiers marry in Ladbergen, Westphalia, Prussia (5 Oct). | 1731 | Treaty of Vienna. English factory workers forbidden to emigrate to American colonies. Benjamin Franklin establishes circulating library in Philadelphia. |
| Johann J. Fiegenbaum marries Christine Schowe (26 Sept). | 1732 | James Ogelthorpe granted charter for colony in Georgia; founds Savannah in 1733. New York builds bowling green for ninepins (reaches peak of popularity in 1840). |
| 1733 | Flying shuttle for weaving looms is developed. | |
| 1740-48 | War of Austrian Succession. | |
| Anna K Fiegenbaum & Johann Kotters marry (17 Feb). Anna E. Fiegenbaum & Herman Wiethoff marry (28 Feb). Herman adopts the surname Fiegenbaum. | 1743 | French explorers reach the Rocky Mountains. First European settlement in South Dakota. |
| 3 Fiegenbaums die within the span of 2 months in 1758 in Ladbergen, Westphalia, Prussia. | 1756-1763 | Seven Years' War. Disease and famine are widespread in Westphalia, Prussia. Dorothea C. Erxleben is first woman to receive a medical degree from a German university (Halle). |
| Johann H. Fiegenbaum & Catharina E. Grotholtmann marry (14 Aug) in Ladbergen, Westphalia, Prussia. | 1763 | Treaty of Paris marks end of Seven Years' War in Europe and French and Indian War in North America. Frederick the Great establishes village schools in Prussia. |
| 1764 | Invention of the spinning jenny in England. | |
| Christina L. Fiegenbaum & Jürgen H. Fennemann marry (20 Oct) | 1765 | British Parliament passes Stamp Act; American colonies protest. Potato becomes popular in Europe. Bank of Prussia founded. |
| Anna Elsabein Fiegenbaum & Johann C. Suhrhenrich marry (9 Mar). | 1768 | J. C. Bach performs first public piano solo heard in England. Boston refuses to quarter British troops. |
| Hermann W. Fiegenbaum & Anna E. Grotholtmann marry (5 Aug). | 1770 | Boston Massacre. James Cook maps New Zealand. Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France. |
| Hermann H. Fiegenbaum & Anna C. K. Horstmeier marry in Lienen, Westphalia, Prussia (20 Nov) | 1785 | Invention of steam-powered loom; and chlorine bleach. Frederick II creates Fürstenbund. Regular stagecoach routes established between New York, Boston & Philadelphia. |
| 1790 | US population is 3.9 million. | |
| Johann H. Fiegenbaum & Anna C. E. Nussemeier marry in Ladbergen, Westphalia, Prussia (5 June). | 1793 | Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI executed. US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Act. Cotton gin introduced; cotton industry revived. Alexander McKenzie crosses Canada from coast to coast. |
| Johann H. Fiegenbaum & Anna C. Kruse marry (27 Jan). | 1797 | John Adams inaugurated US President. Charles Newbold patents first US iron plow; many believe iron will poison the soil and increase weeds. |
| 1800 | US population is 5.3 million. | |
| Mathias Gerber & Barbara Loos marry in Germany (12 Mar). | 1804 | Napoleon crowned Emperor. Beethoven composes Eroica Symphony. Alexander Hamilton dies in duel with Aaron Burr. |
| 1806 | Confederation of the Rhine established under Napoleon's protection. Holy Roman Empire dissolved. Prussia defeated at Jena and Auerstedt. | |
| 1807 | Peace of Tilsit. Prussia cedes all possessions west of the Elbe to France. The Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) is established under Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte. | |
| Johann H. Fiegenbaum & Catherina E. Hagen marry in Ladbergen, Westphalia. | 1810 | Napoleon annexes Hannover, Bremen, Hamburg, Lauenburg & Lübeck. Krupps works opens in Essen. US population is 7.2 million. |
| 1812 | Napoleon defeated in Russia. Louisiana is 18th state of the USA. | |
| 1813 | Germany is liberated after the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig. US forces capture York (Toronto); British capture Fort Niagara & burn Buffalo, NY. | |
| 1814 | Allied armies capture Paris; Napoleon exiled to Elba. Hannover declared a kingdom. British forces burn Washington, D.C. Francis S. Key writes Star-Spangled Banner. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon defeated at Waterloo. Münster becomes capital of the Prussian province of Westphalia. | |
| Adolph H. Fiegenbaum & Christine E. Peterjohann marry (25 Oct) | 1820 |
Missouri Compromise: Maine admitted to US as free state,
Missouri admitted to Union in 1821 as slave state. US population is 9.6 million; Germany's is 26 million. |
| Anna K. E. Fiegenbaum & Wilhelm H. Schröer marry (17 Oct). | 1824 | Beginning of German emigration to Brazil. Portland cement patented. Erie Canal opens. |
| Hermann W. Fiegenbaum & Anna S. E. Wibbeler marry (21 Sept) | 1828 | Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. US slave Isabella van Wagener (c.1797-1883) is freed & takes name of Sojourner Truth. |
| Anna C. Fiegenbaum & Johann W. Wierwille marry (22 May). | 1829 | Russo-Turkish War ends. Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 17th US president. Word 'technology' is coined. |
| 1830 | US population is 12.8 million. | |
| Anna E. Fiegenbaum & Johann H. W. Aufderhaar marry (27 Jul). | 1832 | Black Hawk War in Illinois. Cholera epidemic sweeps major US cities |
| Adolph H. & Christine (Peterjohann) Fiegenbaum and 5 children emigrate to the USA. | 1834 | German Zollverein begins. Slavery abolished in British Empire. McCormick patents his reaper. |
| Christina E. (Fiegenbaum) & Hermann H. Schröer emigrate to the USA. | 1836 | Mary Lyons founds Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mt. Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Texan and Mexican armies fight at Alamo. First & Second McGuffey's Readers published. |
| Anna C. E . Fiegenbaum & Johann H. W. Bierbaum marry (13 Dec). | 1839 | Prussia restricts child labor to maximum 10 hour day. Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber. Abner Doubleday lays out 1st baseball diamond. |
| 1840 | US population is 17.1 million. | |
| 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 emigrate to Missouri, USA. | 1841 | Earthquake in Shinano, Japan kills about 12,000 people. Britain seizes Hong Kong. US Congress passes Preemption Act - settlers on surveyed government land have the right, after 14 months residence, to buy it before anyone else can. |
| Christina E. Fiegenbaum & Heinrich S. Borgmann marry in St. Charles, Missouri, USA (24 Feb). | 1842 |
Fire destroys much of Hamburg, Germany; $35 million in damages. Seminole Indians of Florida removed to Indian Territory (eastern Oklahoma). |
| Heinrich A. Fiegenbaum emigrates to the USA. | 1843 | John Frémont's 2nd expedition surveys Oregon Trail. Samuel Morse wins grant to build telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. |
| Heinrich H. Fiegenbaum & Clara C. Kastenbudt marry in St. Louis, Missouri, USA (11 Apr). | 1847 | Hamburg-America Line founded. US forces capture Mexico City. Evaporated milk invented. |
| Wilhelm H. Fiegenbaum & Sophia Guseswelle marry in St. Louis, Missouri, USA (27 Sept). | 1849 | California Gold Rush. Revolutions and social unrest throughout Europe. Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. |
| 1850 | US population is 23.2 million. | |
| Friedrich W. Fiegenbaum & Louisa Otto marry in Wapello, Iowa, USA (11 Apr). | 1852 | Uncle Tom's Cabin published. Safety matches invented in Sweden. Germany sparrows imported to US to control caterpillars. |
| Hermann Fiegenbaum & Wilhelmine Wehrmann marry in Holstein, Missouri, USA (18 Feb). | 1853 | Crimean War begins. Oldenburg & Hannover join Zollverein. Co-educational Antioch College opens in Ohio. |
| Frederick F. B. Fiegenbaum & Anna K. E. Dammerman marry in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (27 Mar) | 1856 | Pro- & anti-slavery forces battle in Kansas. Crimean War ends. Borden patents condensed milk. Lipman patents pencil with attached eraser. Black Forest (Germany) railroad with 40 tunnels begins operation. |
| Christina S. E. Fiegenbaum & Ernest W. Langebrake marry (7 May). | 1857 | Sepoy Rebellion begins in India. US Supreme Court declares Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. |
| Christina E. Fiegenbaum & Heinrich W. Katter marry (26 Jul). | 1860 |
Abraham Lincoln elected 16th US President. Garibaldi
captures Sicily & Naples. Pony Express begins overland mail
service from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California - 1,900 miles. US population is 31.4 million. |
| Conrad Thoma, grandfather of Charlotte C. Brockmeyer, wounded at the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War (21 July). | 1861 |
Civil War begins. Emancipation of Russian serfs. Telegraph line opens
between New York & San Francisco. US population is 32 million. |
| Louis T. S. Fiegenbaum & Luella Shumway marry in Auburn, Illinois, USA (15 Feb). | 1862 | Bismarck becomes Prussian Prime Minister. US Congress authorizes first federal bank notes-"greenbacks". |
| 1870 | US population is 39.8 million. | |
| Wilhelmine C. E. Fiegenbaum & Mathew Sexauer marry in Ankeny, Iowa, USA (13 Jun). | 1872/73 | US General Amnesty Act pardons most ex-Confederates. Brooklyn Bridge opens. |
| Caroline K. Fiegenbaum & John C. C. Steinmetz marry in Oregon, Missouri, USA (31 Oct). | 1873 | Germany adopts Mark as unit of currency. Epidemics of yellow fever, cholera & smallpox in many southern US cities. |
| 1874 | Severe frost in Ladbergen, Germany destroys potato crop. Civil marriage compulsory in Germany. | |
| Florentine W. Fiegenbaum & Heinrich F. C. Winter marry in Warren County, Missouri, USA (27 Aug). | 1875 | Religious orders abolished in Prussia. Matthew Webb first to swim English Channel (21 hrs. 45 mins.). |
| Katharine A. H. Fiegenbaum & William H. Duesing marry in Waymansville Indiana, USA (30 Aug). | 1876 | Sioux & Cheyenne defeat Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Bell patents the telephone. Cellular coverage is pathetic. |
| Wilhelmina L. Fiegenbaum & August Starkebaum marry in Warren County, Missouri, USA (9 Mar). | 1877 | Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. Frozen meat shipped from Argentina to Europe for first time. |
| 1880 | US population is 50.1 million. | |
| Lidya M. Fiegenbaum & Francis I. Howard marry in Sac City, Iowa, USA (27 Feb). | 1881 | Pour harvest in Westphalia, Prussia brings famine. Flogging abolished in British Army & Navy. |
| George L. Gerber & Charlotte E. Etling marry (19 Oct). | 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act bars Chinese laborers from US for 10 years. First Labor Day celebration held in New York. |
| William F. Fiegenbaum & Emma Duesing marry in Fairview, Kansas, USA (12 Feb). | 1883 | Germany introduces sickness, accident and old age insurances. US reduces postal rate to 2¢ per half oz. |
| Wilhelmina Fiegenbaum & Thomas Curry marry in Buchanan, Missouri, USA (18 Feb). | 1885 | Dewar invents Thermos bottle. Pasteur tests first rabies vaccine. Washington Monument dedicated. |
| Emma M. Fiegenbaum & Jacob Miller marry in Wathena, Kansas, USA (15 Sept). | 1886 | Haymarket Square riot in Chicago. US Forest Service established. Canadian Pacific Railroad completed |
| Oscar B. Fiegenbaum & Dora Fischer marry in Columbus, Indiana, USA (17 Mar). | 1890 |
Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Ladybugs imported into
US to control cottony cushion scale insects. US population is 62.9 million. |
| Emelie A. M. Fiegenbaum & George C. Meyer marry in Old Fairview, Kansas, USA (17 Apr). | 1892 | Cyclone strikes Kansas, USA-31 die, 2 towns destroyed. Boll weevils infest US cotton fields. |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Fiegenbaum & Henriette C. A.
Starkebaum marry in Lafayette County, Missouri, USA (19 Oct). Benjamin F. F. Fiegenbaum & Myrtle Darling marry in Lawrence, Kansas, USA (20 Dec). |
1893 | Benz & Ford both build automobiles. Nansen begins polar circumnavigation in Fram (1893-1896). World Exposition in Chicago. Ice hockey introduced into US from Canada at Yale & John Hopkins Universities. Dvorak composes Symphony No.9 (From the New World) |
| Friedrich H. A. Fiegenbaum & Mary Apwisch marry (8 Mar). | 1899 | Boer War begins. First Peace Conference at The Hague. Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams. |
| Heinrich Fiegenbaum & Nellie B. Montgomery marry in Oregon, Missouri, USA (3 Oct). | 1900 | US population is 75.9 million. Life expectancy is 48 years (males) & 51 years (females). Boxer Uprising in China. First test flight of Zeppelin. World Exhibition in Paris. |
| Wilhelm E. Fiegenbaum & Maude M. Montgomery marry in Oregon, Missouri, USA (10 Oct). | 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt becomes 26th US President. Marconi inaugurates wireless telegraphy. Cause of yellow fever discovered. |
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John H. F. Fiegenbaum & Frieda Brockhoff
marry (5 Mar). Oscar B. Fiegenbaum & Sophia Tellman marry (21 Apr). |
1904 | Russo-Japanese War begins. Baltimore, Maryland fire destroys 2,600 buildings in 30 hours. First perfect major league baseball game pitched by Cy Young. World Exhibition in St. Louis. New York cop arrests woman for smoking cigarette in public. |
| Adeline A. S. Fiegenbaum & Wilbur H. Campsey marry in Fairview, Kansas, USA (15 Feb). | 1905 | First neon lights sighted. Novocain introduced. First direct blood transfusion. Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity. |
| August H. C. Fiegenbaum & Emma J. Apwisch marry (16 May). | 1906 | Zuider Zee drainage program begins. San Francisco earthquake. Amundsen traverses Northwest Passage in Gjøa. |
| 1910 | US population is 91.9 million. | |
| Dara A. Fiegenbaum & William Middendorf marry in Fairview, Kansas, USA (17 Apr). | 1912 | Titanic sinks. News breaks that Raold Amundsen had reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911. Arizona & New Mexico admitted to USA. |
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Mabel B. Fiegenbaum & John Trimpe marry in
Fairview, Kansas, USA (2 Mar). Inez M. Fiegenbaum & Arthur E. Ewing marry in Central City, Nebraska, USA (30 Dec). |
1913 | News breaks that Scott & 4 others had died in Antarctica in 1912. Schweitzer opens hospital in French Congo. Ford Motor Co. sets up moving assembly line. Sixteenth Amendment to US constitution introduces income tax. |
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Carl F. Fiegenbaum & Anna R. Kruse marry in
Hiawatha, Kansas, USA (3 Jun). Martin H. Fiegenbaum & Clara Drewel marry in Lexington, Missouri, USA (6 Jun). |
1917 | US declares war on Germany. Congress passes Selective Service Act. Balfour Declaration by Britain. Russian Revolution. Registered motor vehicles in US number 4.8 million. 1.7 million cars built this year - avg. price = $750. |
| Elsie A. D. Fiegenbaum & Ivory Cook marry in Columbus, Indiana, USA (2 Jul). | 1918 | WW I ends - 8.5 million dead, 21.2 million wounded, 7.75 million missing or POWs. Russian Civil War. Czar & family executed. |
| Eugene A Gerber & Anna C. Springmeyer marry (15 Nov). | 1919 | League of Nations established. Mussolini founds Italian Fascist party. Austria abolishes death penalty. Weimar Republic established in Germany. |
| Louis A. Gerber & Charlotte C. Brockmeyer marry (3 Jul). | 1920 | Kapp Putsch in Berlin. Olympic games at Antwerp. 19th Amendment to US constitution passes - women granted suffrage. Prohibition goes into effect in USA. US population reaches 105.7 million. |
| Frances L. Fiegenbaum & Rueben J. Claussen marry in Springfield, Nebraska, USA (12 Jul). | 1921 | Ku Klux Klan activities in US south become violent. Sacco & Vanzetti convicted. |
| Roberta G. Fiegenbaum & Clyde W. Martin marry in Sidney, Iowa, USA (2 Jun). | 1923 | Hitler 's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich. US dollar = 4 million German Marks. Martial law declared in Oklahoma in response to KKK. |
| John H. Fiegenbaum & Katherine M. Maun marry (14 May). | 1924 | US Immigration act sets racial quotas. Tornado destroys 35 towns in Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky & Missouri; 800 dead, 3000 injured, 15,000 homeless. Indian Citizenship Act grants US citizenship to all Native Americans. |
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Dorothy Fiegenbaum & George Onek marry (22
May). Frances M. Fiegenbaum & Lloyd F. Klein marry in Geneva, Nebraska, USA (3 Aug). |
1926 | First flights by airship & plane over North Pole. Permanent wave, for hair styles, invented. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rocket. Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises. Milne publishes Winnie-the Pooh. |
| 1930 | US population is 122.7 million. | |
| Edwin F. Fiegenbaum & Lucille M. C. Rinne marry in Mayview, Missouri, USA (31 Jan). | 1931 | Empire State Building completed. Al Capone convicted of tax evasion. German banks collapse. US unemployment at 20-25%. |
| 1940 | US population is 131.7 million. | |
| William E. Fiegenbaum & Alice L. Steffgen marry in Medford, Oregon, USA (15 Nov). | 1943 | Siege of Leningrad lifted. Allies invade Sicily; begin round-the-clock bombing of Ruhr area of Germany. Polio epidemic in US kills 1,151. J. Cousteau invents aqualung. |
Sources
- Cowan, Tom & Jack Maguire. Timelines of African-American History. New York: Roundtable Press/Perigee, 1994.
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1968.
- Fiegenbaum genealogical research.
- Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975, 1979.
- Hazen-Hammond, Susan. Timelines of Native American History. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1997.
- Urdang, Laurence, editor. The Timetables of American History.New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
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