When Anna Barbara Plapp was born in 1793, in Kilchberg, Basel, Switzerland, her father, Hans Jakob Plapp, was 28 and her mother, Anna Maria Hofer, was 11790. She married Heinrich Schoenenberger in 1814, in Zeglingen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. She died on 23 September 1870, in Tenniken, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, at the age of 77.
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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.
New Federal Constitution combining elements of the U.S. constitution (Federal State with central and cantonal (state) governments and parliaments) and of French revolutionary tradition. The Principles of this constitution are still valid today.
Some characteristic forenames: German Merwin, Otto.
South German: perhaps also a shortened form of Plappert .
South German and Swiss German: from an onomatopoeic word referring to a clapping noise, hence a nickname for a blabber.
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