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John Sutter

1803 - 1880

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John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, was a Swiss immigrant who became a Mexican and later an American citizen, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital. His employee James W. Marshall discovered gold, leading to the founding of the mill-making team at Sutter's Mill. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Sutter has received more than 804,814 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Sutter is the 175th most popular explorer (down from 150th in 2019), the 2,020th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,779th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Explorer.

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  • 800k

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  • 56.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, John Sutter ranks 175 out of 498. Before him are Lancelotto Malocello, Henri Mouhot, Paulo da Gama, Gaspar Corte-Real, António de Abreu, and Simon Fraser. After him are Anthony van Diemen, Jacob van Heemskerck, John Rolfe, Hendrik Brouwer, Gerónimo de Aguilar, and Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, John Sutter ranks 28. Before him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Joseph Paxton, Henry Darcy, and Alexander Georg von Bunge. After him are Robert Stephenson, Henri Herz, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Karl Gützlaff, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and Edgar Quinet. Among people deceased in 1880, John Sutter ranks 16. Before him are Michel Chasles, Emperor Norton, Bettino Ricasoli, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Édouard Séguin, and Jules Antoine Lissajous. After him are Léon Cogniet, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Ole Bull, Arnold Ruge, Sunanda Kumariratana, and James Craig Watson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John Sutter ranks 2,020 out of 7,253. Before him are Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1612), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), Walter Schröder (1932), Augustin Bea (1881), and Karl Frenzel (1911). After him are Eugen Weidmann (1908), Paul Troost (1878), John III, Duke of Cleves (1490), William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), and Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, John Sutter ranks 9. Before him are Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Heinrich Barth (1821), Hans Staden (1525), Adam Olearius (1603), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), and Gustav Nachtigal (1834). After him are Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Julius Klaproth (1783), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Carl Peters (1856), Karl Weyprecht (1838), and Adolf Lüderitz (1834).

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