When Joanne Friderichsdatter was born on 23 April 1724, in Sønder Højrup, Nyborg, Denmark, her father, Friderich Hartvigsen, was 34 and her mother, Mrs Friderich Hartvigsen, was 30.
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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.
The Old City Hall was built in 1762 and served as the city hall until 1912. the Hall was modelled after the City Hall that was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire in 1795. Today the building is used only for ceremonial and representative purposes.
From Old French Jo(h)anne, and so a doublet of Joan . This too was revived as a given name in its own right in the first half of the 20th century. It has to some extent been influenced by the independently formed combination Jo Anne.
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