| 1716 January 12 |
Born at Seville, Spain. Ulloa descended from a family illustrious in the maritime annals of Spain; son of Bernardo de Ulloa, an economist of reputation, and Josefa de la Torre-Guiral. Early education in church school in Seville; entered the navy himself at an early age but became a scientist.
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| 1733 |
Enrolled as cadet in Naval Academy in Cadiz |
| 1735 |
Appointed a member of important French scientific expedition to Ecuador to measure an arc of the meridian. |
| 1748 |
Author: (with Jorge Juan) Relacion historica del viaja a la America meridional. |
| 1750 |
After return to Europe sent by the crown, 1750, on mission to northern Europe to report on naval installations. Founder of Museum of Natural History of Madrid. Discoverer of platinum. |
| 1758 |
Governor of Huancavelica in Peru from 1758-1764 with orders to improve output of mercury mine essential for silver production. Was commissioned captain. When Charles III ascended the throne, Ulloa was given command of a fleet in the East Indies. |
| 1765 |
In January 1764 he had been relieved as superintendent of the Huancavlica mercury mine in Peru. In June 1764 he learns that he is to be the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. |
| 1765 |
In 1765 he is appointed governor of Louisiana, but remains at Havana until the following Spring, |
| 1766 March 5 |
Arrives in Louisiana Ulloa has been intrusted by the king to make no changes in the laws and customs of the province and at first showed a disposition to conciliate the French inhabitants who were unhappy about crown ceding Louisiana to Spain. |
| 1767 |
The first Spanish governor Antonio de Ulloa establishes a fort near Burtville, La. on Bayou Manchac, the boundary line with British West Florida. |
| 1767 |
Ulloa promised to keep at a fixed rate the 7,600,000 livres of depreciated paper currency and other wise treated the colonists kindly but when he issued his commercial regulation confining the trade of the province to the six Spanish ports of Seville, Aliant, Cartegena, Malaga, Barcelona and Coruna, the indignation of the people broke into open rebellion. |
| 1767 |
Married by proxy, 1767, to Francisca Ramirez de Laredo, of Lima, Peru. Children: Josefa, Buenaventura, Antonio Maria, Francisco Xavier, Martin Josef, Josef Maria, Maria del Carmen. |
| 1768 August 4 |
In a letter to Marquez de Grimaldi the King’s chief minister, Ulloa reports licensing traders in return for maintenance of peace. Ulloa may have continued St. Maxent’s an exclusive fur trade deal. |
| 1768 August 10 |
Ulloa writes that the financial affairs of the colony are in desperate condition.The maintenance of the Royal frigate of war is supplied and fed by St. Maxent who believes it is a sound investment. |
| 1768 |
By October troops are assembling in Havana and Ulloa publishes the restrictive trade regulations. The Superior Council votes to expel the Spanish governor of Louisiana. The French Creoles declare Ulloa an usurper and order him to leave the colony. They also spread propaganda to sway public opinion to their side and distort facts about Spanish intentions. They circulate rumors among the Acadians and Germans that the Spanish government would not pay them for provisions supplied to its officials. Also the Acadians are to be sold into slavery. Commandant d’Arensburg, leader of the Germans incites them into action. |
| 1768 October 25 |
Ulloa and Charles Philippe Aubry dispatch Gilberto St. Maxent to the German Coast with funds to satisfy the Germans. But Lafreniere and Marquis send Villere and Verret to arrest St. Maxent at the plantation of Cantrelle, Commandant of the Acadians. |
| 1768 October 29 |
Charles Philippe Aubry persuades Ulloa and his wife to board El
Volante, which anchors in mid-river. Navarro and a handful of Spanish
in town barracade themselves in Ulloa’s house. Gilberto
St. Maxent is released and ElVolante leaves on April 1, 1769
The first revolution in America expels Ulloa, as well as all other Spanish officials except treasury officials, Juan Jose de Loyola, Martin Navarro and Esteban Gayarré. They were held hostage to redeem bonds and paper money. The rebels make a major mistake in not immediately sending representatives to Paris to argue their case. Louis XV never considered reclaiming Louisiana because it had always been a huge financial liability. |
| 1768 Nov. 1 |
In obedience to a decree of the Superior Council, Ulloa embarks and sails for Havana, thence to Cadiz, where he wrote a full account of his administration to the Marquis Grimaldi. |
| 1772 |
Author: Relacion historica del viaja a la America Meridional (with Jorge Juan), Noticias secretas de America; Noticias Americanas. |
| 1776 |
Naval commander of last important convoy from Cadiz to Mexico. |
| 1780 |
Commander of Spanish squadron against English raiders in American War of Independence, 1780. He was then made a Lt. Gen. of the royal navies of Spain and retires to Cadiz as admiral of the fleet |
| 1795 July 3 |
Dies on the Isla de Leon, Cadiz, July 3, 1795 after finishingConversaciones de Ulloa con sus tres hijos en servicio de la marina. Interred at Cadiz. Member of the Royal Society of London, Royal Academies of Stockholm and Berlin; corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science of Paris. |