When Ulli Lüdi was born on 24 June 1683, in Heimiswil, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Hans Lüdi, was 42 and his mother, Maria Hoffmann, was 41. He married Catharina Widmer on 4 November 1718, in Rüegsau, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters.
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Revolution in Switzerland. Farmers in occupied territories become free citizens. Centralistic parliamentary republic according to French model. Occupation by French troops and some battles of Napoleon vs. Austria and Russia in Switzerland.
Switzerland is one of the first industrialized countries in Europe.
English: unexplained.
History: According to legend, Ned Ludd was a Leicestershire weaver who in 1779 attacked and destroyed some weaving machines. By the beginning of the 19th century, craftsmen who protested against the Industrial Revolution, which was believed to be robbing them of their livelihood, by destroying industrial machinery had come to be known as Luddites. A much earlier English legend identifies a mythical King Ludd as the founder of London, supposedly buried at Ludgate Circus in London.
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