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1759
| 1759 • Battle of Kunersdorf: Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults on the combined Austro–Russian army of Pyotr Saltykov and Ernst von Laudon. This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats. |
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Age: 13y
1772
Age: 13y
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birth of childLucretia Irish Vermont, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1772 • Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark. |
1772
Age: 13y
marriageJohn Irish They were married as John Irish was on his way north from Nine Partners, and settled in Tinmouth. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1772 • Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California. |
1777
Age: 18y
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eventDanby, Vermont, USA ⇓ Rebecca's husband is shot and killed, after being suspected as a Tory, even though his involvement, being a Quaker, was unlikely. The story goes that after his death, Rebecca "left within the twelve days - traveled on foot with her three children to Danby, a distance of seven miles, through the uninterrupted forests of the then wilderness country, rendered doubly gloomy by the fitful gusts and wails of a bleak November wind." She would have been around 20 years old, with her daughter Lucretia who was 5, son Joseph who was around 3, and a baby, Rhoda. They would go to live with her husband's family, who were complete strangers. Their home was later pillaged of all their belongings shortly after they were gone. Rebecca's personal account was first published in 1855 in the Rutland Herald newspaper by C. H. Congdon, and it says of her that she was "a high spirited woman, with a temperment rather sanguine than otherwise, and her villifiers, with all their heroism, did not confront her." 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1777 • The Stars and Stripes is adopted by the Continental Congress as the flag of the United States. |
1780
Apr 2
Age: 21y
marriageDanby, Vermont, USA ⇓ She married secondly Stutely Strafford at twenty one years old, and they would have six known children. They would later move to South Wallingford, Vermont. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1780 • American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces. |