♂ Peter Switzer

1813 - 1862

Peter Switzer
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Parents
Christina Reese
Christina Reese
1783 - 1860
Lewis Switzer
Lewis Switzer
1785 - 1872
Spouse
Children
Mary Jane Switzer
Mary Jane Switzer
1837 - 1936
Elsinda Switzer
Elsinda Switzer
1843 - 1922
John Harvey Switzer
John Harvey Switzer
1849 - 1916
 

Timeline

1813


Oct 17
1813 • The Carabinieri, the national military police of Italy, are founded by Victor Emmanuel I as the police force of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

1837


Apr 3
Age: 23y
1837 • The city of Houston, is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.

1839


Aug 11
Age: 25y
1839 • In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a railway between Naples and Portici (7.4 km length) is inaugurated by H.M. King Ferdinand II of Bourbon (the first railway in the Italian peninsula).

1840


Age: 26y
1840 Louis Agassiz publishes his Etudes sur les glaciers ("Study on Glaciers", 2 volumes), the first major scientific work to propose that the Earth has seen an ice age.

1843


Mar 1
Age: 29y
1843 • In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod is the first non-white person elected to the House of Assembly.

1849


Nov 15
Age: 36y
1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Rome to defend it from the French troops of General Oudinot.

1850


Age: 36y
Peter Switzer, Susannah Crick, & Mary Jane Switzer - 1850 United States Federal Census

residence


Toby, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
Susannah Crick's brother Henry Crick is living next door. There is also a Peter Crick living nearby.
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1850 • Opening of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait.

1862


Dec 28
Age: 49y
1862 Battle of Fredericksburg: The Union Army suffers massive casualties and abandons its attempts to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.

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