♀ Katherine Wiesen

1831 - 1923

Katherine Wiesen
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Spouse
Peter S Fisher Sr.
Peter S Fisher Sr.
1817 - 1894
Children
John M Fisher
John M Fisher
1864 - 1930
Charles Fisher
Charles Fisher
1867 - 1947
Matthew Fisher Sr.
Matthew Fisher Sr.
1868 - 1936
Joseph Fisher Sr.
Joseph Fisher Sr.
1879 - 1935

1831


Dec 8

1864


Age: 31y
1864 • The Dutch conquer southern Sumatra.

1867


May
Age: 35y
1867 Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly".

1868


Feb 3
Age: 36y
1868 Thomas Spence declares himself president of the Republic of Manitoba; he soon alienates the locals.

1870


Jun 15
Age: 38y
1870 Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

1874


Mar
Age: 42y
1874 27Second Battle of Somorrostro (Third Carlist War): In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrived with 27,000 men and 70 cannon. However in three days of fierce fighting, the Carlist General Joaquín Elío, with just 17,000 men, once again drove off the attack at nearby Somorrostro, and it was another six weeks before Serrano managed to relieve Bilbao.

1876


Age: 43y
1876 May 12Berlin Memorandum: Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary propose an armistice between Turkey and its insurgents.

1879


Oct 22
Age: 47y
1879 • The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is formed.

1923


May 17
Age: 91y
1923 • BEGGARS Fraternity (the second social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded by nine men who have secured permission to do so from the Pope.

1923


May
1923 Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Kemal Atatürk is elected as first president.

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