When Frantz Madsen Illum was born on 7 February 1706, in Fåborg, Sallinge, Svendborg, Denmark, his father, Mads Frantzen Illum, was 25 and his mother, Anna Marie Meyer, was 24. He died on 3 May 1764, in Villerup, Vestervig, Vestervig, Denmark, at the age of 58, and was buried in Skallerup, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Denmark.
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The Royal Danish Military Academy educated and commissioned all officers for the Royal Danish Army. The Military Academy function was initiated in 1713 by request of King Frederick IV on inspiration from the Naval Academy.
Greenland becomes Danish province.
The Danish Asiatic Company was a trading company established to revive the dwindling Danish trade with the East Indies and China. It was taken over by the Danish government in 1772 and continued to run until around 1843.
English: possibly a habitational name from Alham in Somerset or a variant of Hallam with loss of initial H-. Post-medieval examples may alternatively represent a variant of Allen .
Muslim: variant of Allam or Alam .
Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farmsteads in southeastern Norway, probably named from Old Norse Aldheimar, a compound of ald ‘high’ + heimar ‘farm’.
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