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| North America:The three year war with Pontiac ends with the Treaty of Oswego. Queens College in New Jersey is the beginning of Rutgers University. | |||||||||||
| Europe: On the death of his father-in-law, the former Polish King Stanislas, Louis XV gains the provence of Lorraine as part of France. France discontinues free trade in grain inside of the country. Non-fiction by Jean Jacques Rousseau "Let them eat cake" (if there is no bread). Benjamin Franklin persuades Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act, but the Declaratory Act gives the King the power to make laws. William Pitt, "The Great Commoner," becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain. A canal from the Mersey River to the Trent River connects central England from sea to sea. Fiction by Goldsmith; painting by Wright and Zoffany; Christie's Art Auction house; Theatre by Garrick and Colman; music by Mozart. Nitrogen discovered as soil nutrient | |||||||||||
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January 1766
January 17, 1766 aboard two small vessels, El Volante and El Rey de Prusia Antonio Ulloa, Spanish troops and other officials proceed to New Orleans from Havana. January 27 Bernard Deverges dies and is succeeded by Hypolite Amelot who helps Ulloa in a detailed inventory of government property. |
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March 1766
March 5 The new Spanish governor Antonio de Ulloa receives a cold welcome from the French Creoles. He delays taking formal possession of the colony and will administer the colony from the Balize through acting French governor Charles Philippe Aubry for most of the next thirty months. With only ninety soldiers Antonio de Ulloa raises the Spanish flag over the Balize and several new army posts along the Mississippi river and awaits while the Fixed Louisiana Infantry Battalion is slowly assembled in Havana. Most of Ulloa’s problems are with the French Superior Council, a group of privileged residents who are used to conducting their business and lives as they pleased. Also the French troops refused his orders and to serve under Spanish officers. |
April 1766
April 2 Ulloa takes an inventory of government possessions in the city. Also there is the ever present economic crisis in the colony and Antonio de Ulloa is short of pesos. Wisely he refuses to show his commission and defers taking formal possession of the colony until the arrival of more Spanish troops. The situation leaves Louisiana in the confusing position of having two sovereigns in effect and none in fact. |
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September 1766
September 6 Antonio de Ulloa issues a set of commercial regulations and his enemies begin conspiring: Lafreniere, the Attorney General of the French govenment; Foucault, the commissary who quarreled with Louis Billouart de Kerlerec; the wealthy brothers Milhet, prominent merchants Canesse, Petit and Poupet; Marquis, Captain of Swiss troops in French service; Noyen and Noyen-Bienville, officers and grandnephews of Bienville; Villere, planter and commandant of the German Coast; Doucet, a lawyer; Mazan and Boisblanc, planters. |
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| As the Spanish begin to arrive in New Orleans most buildings are one-story shanties of highly flammable cypress or colombage. A few better structures are raised eight feet to fend off flood waters with galleries surrounding the house. Only the first four streets from the river are developed. | Antonio
de Ulloa formulates a strict fur trading policy regarding Indians.
He maintains experienced French Commandants at the frontier posts with
gifts to the Indians to maintain peace and licensed traders to keep tribes
under control. The most important trading center was St. Louis, under the control of Gilberto St. Maxent. Trading with great Osages. Little Odages, the Kansas Otoes, Pawnees, the Sacs, the Foxe, the Iowas, the Missouri, the Souix and the Ottawas. Ulloa may have given Gilberto St. Maxent an exclusive trade deal |
James Brown Louis Philippe de Rouffignac |
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