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Around 1700, it is estimated that nearly 25% of the Amsterdam population was Huguenot. [citation needed] In 1705, Amsterdam and the area of West Frisia were the first areas to provide full citizens rights to Huguenot immigrants, followed by the whole Dutch Republic in 1715. Huguenots intermarried with Dutch from the outset.
The date of the founding of the French colony could be set as 1 December 1685, when the City Commander of Magdeburg, Ernst Gottlieb von Borstel ( 1630-1687 ) received the order from Berlin to make it happen as soon as the preacher Banzelin came with the first French families. The first troop of 50 Huguenots then met on 27 December 1685 in ...
Charles Darnay from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is believed to be based on him. Son of Peter Fector. [284] [285] [286] Claude Fonnereau (1677–1740), banker, from La Rochelle. [271] James Gaultier, banker, from Angoulême. [271] King C. Gillette (1855–1932), American safety razor entrepreneur and utopian theorist. [287]
A large portion of the population died in massacres or were deported from French territory following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Today, the Huguenots number about one million, or about two percent of the population; They are most concentrated in southeastern France and the Cévennes region in the south.
1685 - Huguenot refugee French Colony of Magdeburg develops. 1691 - Rathaus Magdeburg (city hall) rebuilt. [4] 1702 - Magdeburg Citadel built. [7] 1721 - Fort Berge construction begins. 1780 - Population: 22,389. 1783 - Harmonie-Gesellschaft (Magdeburg) (cultural association) founded.
In 1572 these congregations united and in 1573 the community was visited by the Queen. Around this time, the Huguenot population of Sandwich grew to comprise almost a third of the town's overall population. [10] [11] A small number of Huguenot gardeners moved to Wandsworth, Battersea, and Bermondsey to be closer to London. [12]
in Huguenots in Britain and their French Background, 1550–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1987) pp. 158–174. [ISBN missing] Treasure, Geoffrey. The Huguenots (Yale UP, 2015) [ISBN missing] Tylor, Charles. The Huguenots in the Seventeenth Century: Including the History of the Edict of Nantes, from Its Enactment in 1598 to Its Revocation in 1685 (1892)
This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods.