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| South America & Caribbean:The Cabildo of Buenos Aires calls for the loan of 1,600 horses for a great cattle hunt of the Banda Oriental. Bands of vagabond Spaniards aided by indians were driving off up to 400,000 head of cattle and selling to the Portuguese in Colonia Sacramento. | ||||||||||||
| North America:Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix travels from Acadia up the St. Lawrence River, through Illinois country and down the Mississippi to the settlement of New Orleans. | ||||||||||||
| Europe: A plot to drive the Regent from power in France is actually a conspiracy aided by the Spanish ambassador Cellamore. The result is France and England declaring war against Spain. John Law's bank scheme is still on the rise, making millionaires when small investors cash in their shares. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. | ||||||||||||
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January 1719
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February 1719
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March 1719
A concession near New Orleans is granted to Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville on March 27, 1719 by the Company of the West. This plantation was sold by Bienville, founder of New Orleans, on April 11, 1726 to the Jesuit Fathers from whom it was confiscated in 1763. |
April 1719
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May 1719
May 28,1719; Pierre Voisin dit Montreuil arrives in Louisiana on the vessel LÂUnion from France. He is listed as a Tobacco smuggler, but is granted land in the city and gains a large portion of the city block bounded by Royal, St. Philip, Bourbon and Ursulines. |
June 1719
An order arrives to Commandant Philippe Blondel at Natchitoches to attack the Spanish post at Los Adaes. His seven men found the forces at Los Adaes easy: an aging soldier, a lay priest and a flock of seven Spanish chickens. |
July 1719
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August 1719
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September 1719
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October 1719
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November 1719
November 3 The Company of the Indies appoints M. Le Blonde de la Tour as Engineer-in-chief. De Pauger and de Boispinel are his assistants and Sieur Franquet de Chaville will be sent to Louisiana also. |
December 1719
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| Pierre Chartier de Baulne, French Louisiana attorney general in 1719, held the earliest land grant at the former village of the Colapissas on Chapitoulas (Metairie) Road. His family were the first colonists to live nearby. | First German Settlement 1719-1722 about five miles above Hahnville in St. Charles Parish. Settlers here joined in 1768 revolt against Ulloa and Spain. The village's leaders were Chevalier Karl dÂArensbourg and Captain Joseph Roi De Villere who was first martyr in 1769. This was Akanca Indian land prior to settlement. | Joseph Villars Dubreüil settled in the Jefferson Parish area in 1719. He became a pioneer in agriculture and wealthy entrepreneur. Nearby he built the first plantation levee. It lead to the creation in 1724 of the Mississippi RiverÂs original levee system | French explorer Pierre François de Charlevoix, 37, travels up the St. Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes, and down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. He has been sent to find a new route west from Acadia. | John Law renames his 3-year-old Compagnie d Occident as reports circulate that Louisiana is rich in gold and diamonds. By midyear investors who paid 500 livres for shares in LawÂs Compagnie des Indies are reselling them at 15,000 livres each in ParisÂs Rue de Quinquempoix. Parisians hear the word millionaire for the first time, and Law receives rights to collect all French government taxes and to issue paper currency. |
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