METZLER
| 1674 | Benjamin Metzler, born 1650 in the Saxon Vogtland, marries Katharina Voß on April 27, 1674 and founds a cloth trading company in Frankfurt am Main. The first store is located in the Geißgasse. |
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EVENTS IN FRANKFURT
WORLD HAPPENINGS
| 1658 | Leopold I. is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. He rules until 1705. |
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| 1673 | The Mississippi River is discovered. |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents the adding machine. | |
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| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek uses self-constructed microscopes for biological
examinations. Louis XIV. introduces the allonge wig in France. |
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