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* Conrad Weiser, 1696 – 1760, built his homestead just outside what is now the borough limits.
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* 1696 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans ( d. 1760 )
* July 13 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy ( b. 1696 )
* November 2 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy ( d. 1760 )
With the help of German immigrant Conrad Weiser, the county was formed on March 11, 1752 from parts of Chester County, Lancaster County, and Philadelphia County.
* Conrad Weiser Homestead near Womelsdorf.
The Kissling Farm and Conrad Weiser House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Robesonia area is served by the Conrad Weiser Area School District and Conrad Weiser High School.
A Pennsylvania state historic site, the Conrad Weiser Homestead, is located in Womelsdorf ; this site interprets the life of Conrad Weiser, a well-known 18th-century German immigrant who played a major role in the history of colonial Pennsylvania.
Conrad Weiser guided Moravian missonaries along the creek and path to reach Onondaga the capital of the Iroquois Confederacy in 1737.
In 1754, Chief Shikellamy negotiated with Conrad Weiser to set the Blue Mountains as the upper limit settlement in the native people's home lands.
Subsequently, in 1783, he worked with Samuel Weiser ( son of Conrad Weiser, the famous Native Americans liaison who died in 1760, and with whose family Derr's own paternal family had been friends ) to layout his combined land tracts, and create Derrstown.
After Viele, James Letort, Andrew Montour, Conrad Weiser and George Croghan were some of the other settlers to move to North Huntingdon.
In 1748, when Conrad Weiser visited Logstown, downriver from Pittsburgh, he counted 789 warriors gathered: 165 Lenape, 163 Seneca, 162 Shawnee, 100 Wyandot, 74 Mohawk, 40 Tisagechroamis, 35 Onondaga, 20 Cayuga, 15 Oneida, and 15 Mohicans.
In addition to visiting leaders in Philadelphia such as Benjamin Franklin, he met with the leaders of the Iroquois and, with the assistance of Conrad Weiser reached agreements for the free movement of Moravian missionaries in the area.
* Pennsylvania: Secretary Benjamin Chew, Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin ‡, Conrad Weiser
Soon after arriving in Pennsylvania, in 1745 Muhlenberg married Anna Maria Weiser, the daughter of colonial leader Conrad Weiser.
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* 1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-English writer ( b. 1857 )
* 1518 – Conrad Lycosthenes, French-German humanist and encyclopedist ( d. 1561 )
* 1961 – Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
* 1944 – Conrad Black, Canadian publisher, historian, and author
* 1989 – Breanna Conrad, American fashion designer
* 1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat ( Conrad I ), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election.
* 1986 – Conrad Logan, Irish footballer
* 1028 – Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
* 1228 – Conrad IV of Germany ( d. 1254 )
Conrad von Gesner ( 1516 – 1565 ) and Nicholas Culpeper ( 1616 – 1654 ) also published herbals covering the medicinal uses of plants.
* Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor ( c. 990 – 1039 )
* Conrad II of Italy ( 1074 – 1101 )
* Conrad II of Jerusalem ( 1228 – 1254 )
* Conrad II of Teck ( 1235 – 1292 )
* Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia ( probably 1003 – 1039 )
* 1724 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist ( d. 1811 )
* 1907 – Conrad L. Raiford, Goodwill Ambassador ( d. 2002 )
* 1140 – Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg.
* 1565 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist ( b. 1516 )
The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.
* 1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
* 1508 – Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar ( b. 1459 )
Perhaps the most notable of these was the Protestant pastor Georg Conrad Horst ( 1779 – 1832 ), who from 1821 to 1826 published a six-volume collection of magical texts in which he studied grimoires as a peculiarity of the Mediaeval mindset.
Conrad and built
Conrad Hilton built the Falls Hotel, with a tunnel to a mineral bath, to accommodate the business generated by the hot spring.
The first military post built near Socorro was Fort Conrad, south of the town.
The first store was opened by Conrad Hayner and Peter Loose at Tamarack, and the first grist mill was built by Johann Heinrich Gross, in 1772, on the Quackenkill.
In 1929, Conrad Hilton built his eighth Hilton Hotel in his chain in Marlin, a nine-floor, 110 room Falls Hotel, which could be seen for miles from the city limits of Marlin.
Conrads Store was a general store built by George Conrad about 1812.
The Conrad von Hötzendorf Kaserne was built just east of the village in 1935-37 as a base for the signals detachment ( Gebirgs-Nachrichten-Abteilung 54 ) of the Mountain Brigade.
In 1031-1032 Humbert I of Savoy, the founder of the House of Savoy, received the title Count of Aosta from the Emperor Conrad II of the Franconian line and built himself a commanding fortification at Bard.
His son Conrad even built two more machines in different sizes.
* The German Army post in Oberammergau, Bavaria, built in 1937, is named the Conrad von Hötzendorf Kaserne.
In the late forties, Taylor's business partner George Montegu Black, Jr ( father of Conrad Black ) moved into the area and built a large mansion on Park Lane Circle.
At the end of 13th century, during the Duke's Conrad II of Mazovia reign, the wooden-earthen gord called Smaller Manor () was built.
The palas ( residential building ) is 2 storeys high, built of crushed stone lined with Rhenish Schwemmstein ( a traditional artificial material made of dried pumice and lime, similar to concrete ), and stands at the eastern, Rhine valley end of the courtyard, over a vaulted cellar that Ernst Stahl dated to the time of Conrad of Hohenstaufen.
It was built in 1822 according to the plans of Architect Hans Conrad Stadler.
As no prototype yet existed, this was hardly feasible to accomplish, but Conrad had the mould and hull built in one week, and the mast cut, stepped and the boat rigged in another.
Berhold's second son, Conrad, awarded market rights to the city, making it the oldest Zähringerstadt in Switzerland and the oldest city in the Aargau ; in 1150 he also had the first bridge built across the Rhine, between Konstanz and Strasbourg.
Conrad first became interested in radio in 1912 when, in order to settle a bet on the accuracy of a watch, Conrad built a radio in order to hear time signals from the Arlington, Virginia Naval Observatory.
The last Komtur of the Teutonic Knights, Freiherr Beat Conrad Reuttner von Weyl, had a new castle built by the official architect of the Teutonic Knights, Franz Anton Bagnato, between 1794 and 1796.
Their ancestral seat was Turjak Castle in the March of Carniola, according to an engraving on site built in 1067 by one Conrad of Auersperg.
He even had a sort of family vault built, in which he laid the bones of his brother, Conrad and his son, Henry, both of whom died young.
Conrad Schick planned for open green space in each courtyard, but cowsheds were built instead.
The building was built in the Art Deco style of the late 1920s by George Conrad Reifel and designed by architect H. H.
Black Point is an estate on the south shore of Geneva Lake in Wisconsin, built in 1888 as a summer home by Conrad Seipp, a beer tycoon from Chicago.
About 1083 Conrad built a castle on the Wirtemberg close to today's Stuttgart.
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