Based on a timeline developed by Laurence M. Wilson (The Descendants of Haincz Schutenhelm), I am presenting a short timeline of my own... to put our family events is perspective.
9 AD Romans control land west of the Rhine
800AD Charlemagne (who is related to some of us) crowned 1st Holy Roman Emperor
1000 Leif Ericson discovers North America
1099 Crusaders take Jerusalem
1187 Muslims retake Jerusalem
1348-65 Black Death kills 25 million Europeans
c 1380 Family patriarch, Haincz Schutenhelm is born
c 1440 Gutenberg invents the printing press
1477 University founded at Tubingen, Wurttemberg
1482 Judge Heinricus Schuttenhelm knighted in Stuttgart
1492 Columbus "discovers" America
c 1530 Progenitor of Schwarzwald line of family- HannB Schuttenhelm- born
1534 Martin Luther posts "95 Theses"
1555 Lutheran states receive equal rights with Catholic states
1608 1st Germans- carpenters and glass makers- arrive at Jamestown
1618-48 30 Years War devastates Germany
1683 1st prominent German settlement in Pennsylvania
1709-11 Thousands of Palatines emigrate to Hudson River valley and Pennsylvania
1727 German population reaches 20,000 in Pennsylvania
1766 Friedrich Schittenhelm emigrated to America from Aach
1774 Jacob Schittenhelm inherited Sterneck Castle and estate
1775-83 German Hessians and other mercenaries fight in American Revolution
1806-13 Bavaria and Wurttemberg elevated to status of kingdoms
1815 Napolean defeated at Waterloo
1836 Battle of Alamo
1844 Jacob Sheathelm emigrates from Dornstetten to Michigan
1843-59 Large wave of German emigration
1854 Matthias Schittenhelm emigrated to America
1861 Ludwig Scheidenhelm emigrated to America
1861-65 American Civil War- 23% of Union soldiers German-Americans
1871 Germany formed- King William 1 became Kaiser
1884 Gottfried Schittenhelm emigrated to America
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