When Bodil Aristdatter was born about 1722, in Klemensker, Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Arist Poulsen Dam, was 29 and her mother, Anne Larsdatter, was 28. She married Hans Hansen Marcher on 12 November 1762. She died in 1765, at the age of 44.
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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.
Meyercrones Stiftelse was founded by the widow of Henning de Meyercrone after he had served as Danish envoy in France. Christiane Meyercrone, Henning's widow, managed the property until her death in 1738. Her niece became the new manager of the foundation and arranged for its charter to be written in 1830. The original, small building was replaced by a larger building in 1933.
From an Old Norse personal name from bót ‘remedy, compensation’ + hildr ‘battle’.
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