When Bendicht Bigler was born on 1 October 1778, in Worb, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Christen Bigler, was 42 and his mother, Anna Schüttel, was 41. He married Elisabeth Stalder on 1 April 1808, in Worb, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 17 December 1858, in Richigen, Worb, Bern, Switzerland, at the age of 80, and was buried in Worb, Bern, Switzerland.
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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.
"Civil war brings Helvetic Republic to an end. French emperor Napoleon enforces a constitution negotiated under his ""mediation""."
South German: topographic name for someone who lived by a curve in a street or river, or in a nook, from Middle High German biegel ‘nook, corner’.
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