Anna Catherina Lauck
Parents
Spouse
Lazarus Wenger
Lazarus Wenger
1715 - 1796
Children
Jacob Winger
Jacob Winger
1747 - 1825

1738


Nov 10
Age: 17y
1738 Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the earth is an oblate spheroid slightly flattened at the poles.

1738


Nov 10
Age: 17y
1738 • China's Qing government announces that all western businessmen have to use the Cohong in Guangzhou to trade.

1747


Age: 25y
1747 War of the Austrian Succession: Spanish troops invade and occupy the coastal towns of Beaufort and Brunswick in the Royal Colony of North Carolina during what becomes known as the Spanish Alarm. They are later driven out by the local militia.

1797


Age: 75y
1797 Battle of San Juan: Sir Ralph Abercromby unsuccessfully invades San Juan, Puerto Rico in what will be one of the largest British attacks on Spanish territories in the western hemisphere, and one of the worst defeats of the British Royal Navy for years to come.

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