Salzburger Emigrants, picture from c. 1732
In the year 1734, Salzburgers - Lutherans expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg - set sail for the British Colony of Georgia, in America (Jan 8), French and Swiss troops suppress the slave insurrection in the Danish West Indies after six months and restore control of the plantations to the Danish owners (May 27), Jamaica’s Governor John Ayscough declares martial law to fight the slave rebellion that began the previous year (Oct 23) - and all these fine people were born:
1734-xxxx Ulrica Arfvidsson* fortuneteller - Sweden (1801/c.66)
1734-0116 John A. Treutlen* merchant/landowner/Governor of Georgia - Kürnbach, Duchy of Württemberg (1782/48)
1734-0117 Liisa Hyövälti** - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (17xx/)
1734-0120 Robert Morris* financier/Founding Father of the United States - Liverpool, England (1806/72)
1734-0123 Wolfgang von Kempelen* author/inventor (chess-playing “automaton” hoax The Turk & speaking machine) - Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Empire (1804/70)
1734-0227 Thomas Conway* American Revolutionary War general - Ireland (c.1800/c.66)
1734-0319 Thomas McKean* lawyer/signer of the Declaration of Independence - New London Township, Province of Pennsylvania, British America (1817/83)
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1734-0406 Hans Pehrsson Torp Jr.** father of Hans Hansson Marcken Långholm (b Torp) - Esse Åminne, Pedersöre, Sweden-Finland (1800/66)
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1734-0412 Elsa Beata Bunge* Swedish botanist/writer - Peippola, Sweden-Finland (1819/84)
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1734-0523 Franz Mesmer* physician/studied animal magnetism - Iznang, Germany (1815/80)
1734-0615 Johann Ernst Altenburg* German organist/ trumpeter/composer - Weißenfels, Saxony-Anhalt (1801/66)
1734-0725 Ueda Akinari* 上田 秋成 author/scholar/poet - Osaka, Japan (1809/75)
1734-0903 Joseph Wright of Derby* landscape and portrait painter - Derby, England (1797/62)
1734-0917 Elizabeth Canning* maidservant/kidnappee - London, England (1773/38)
1734-1007 Ralph Abercromby* soldier/ politician/Governor of Trinidad - Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland (1801/66)
1734-1102 Daniel Boone* pioneer/ explorer/frontiersman - Boone Homestead, Berks County, Province of Pennsylvania (1820/85)
1734-1124 Pehr Hansinpoika Häggström* surveyor - Lappeenranta, Sweden-Finland (1817/82)
1734-1226 George Romney* portrait painter - Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, England (1802/67)
Updated 29.3.2023-2
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