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| Previous Hispanola: 1799 Sonthonax returns to France, again facing malfeasance charges. He is exiled to the Department of Charente-Maritime. Later he is permitted to relocate to Orleans , then to his native Oyonnax where he will die July 28, 1813.
Toussaint makes trade treaties with the British and the United States and has France declare Rigaud a rebel.
Rigaud calls on mulattoes in the West and North Provinces to make war against both the blacks and the whites.
Toussaint dispatches his generals Dessalines and Henri Christophe to check Rigaud s advance. Toussaint wars against all mulattoes in the North and executes 50 mulatto civil and military officials.
U.S. warships (to aid independence of the province) ferry black troops to the fighting and bombard mulatto emplacements.
Next South America & Caribbean: Friedrich von Humboldt begins exploration of South America. |
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| North America:Washington dies, age 67; the Executive Mansion or White House is completed; vaccination reaches America. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Napoleon’s invasion of Syria cut short by plague, he returns to France to become first consul and dictator; British income tax; beet sugar produced; Haydn; Beethoven. | |||||||||||
January 1799
 Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer - Francisco de Riaño Segundo - Gabriel Fonvergne. Sindico Procurador General Felix Arnaud (Juan Soulier first refused the office) Mayordomo de Proprios Juan de Castañedo Narciso Broutin replaces Francisco Broutin as the third Cabildo escribano until the end of the Spanish era Ramon Lopez y Angulo serves as Intendant from 1799 until 1801. The land office passes in 1799 from the governor’s office to Intendant. |
February 1799
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March 1799
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April 1799
On April 20, 1799 the Spanish crown revokes the decree of November 18, 1797 allowing its American subjects to use neutral foreign ships to import and export their goods. The Cabildo, as well as the merchants and the civil and military governors join in urging acting Intendant Morales to suspend enforcement of the new decree. He sends representatives from all quarters to support his action. April 29, 1799; Regidor Sencillos Luis Darby Danicant renounces his post. It is purchased by Gabriel Fonvergne on November 22, 1799. |
May 1799
May, 11 1799 - First two floors of the Cabildo building are completed. The Cabildo moves in . The architect is Gilberto Guillemard. Since the builder Almonester died before it is completed his widow asks to be released from the contract and paid off. In 1799 the city is weary of the uncertainty of the extent of city property and its authority over land titles. It petitions the king to extend the upper and lower limits of the city. The Intendancy opposes the city s wish to own clear title and taxing power over lands owned by the crown and private individuals. These questions are not resolved by the end of the Spanish era. |
June 1799
The 1799 Spring floods again innundate most of the Tchoupitoulas district upriver from the city. Governor Gayoso informs the Cabildo that he has ordered the repairs and the council correctly judges that the landowners will pay for the repairs. Within the city the alcaldes de barrio collect every donation the city can yield. |
July 1799
The July 18, 1799 death of Governor Gayoso begins an era of frustration for the Cabildo which contends with the duplicious Vidal and the sickly Salcedo as governors. July 18,1799 Colonel Francisco Bouligny becomes acting military governor of Louisiana. He will serve until September 18, 1799 when the Casa Calvo arrives to assume the military governorship. July 18,1799 Vidal becomes acting civil governor of Louisiana until the arrival of Manuel Juan de Salcedo on July 15, 1801. Vidal had been the colony’s judge advocate and lieutenant governor. His background in Columbia and the corruption of the reign of Carlos IV and his first secretary Godoy, as well as the factionalism in the Cabildo contribute to the decline of Louisiana at the end of the Spanish era. |
August 1799
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September 1799
September 18, 1799; Shortly after the death of Governor Gayoso, the Marquis de Someruelos, captain-general of Cuba and Louisiana, appoints Casa Calvo to be ad interim military governor of Louisiana. One of his first acts is to transmit to the captain-general a petition from the planters, asking for the removal of restrictions on the importation of slaves. The planters want them to be brought to the colony in unlimited numbers, or at least enough of them to supply all the labor necessary for the conduct of the plantations. |
October 1799
October 24 Juan Manuel de Salcedo is appointed to the office of Governor of Louisiana. Vidal and Governor-General Salcedo refuse to enforce the list of rules giving the intendant sole power to grant land drawn up by Juan Ventura Morales. |
November 1799
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December 1799
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| Evan Jones is appointment as U. S. consul and appears in Spanish military uniform before Col. Francisco Bouligny. Bouligny recommends that Jones not be recognized as consul because he is still a Spanish subject. The Captain General in Havana agrees, but Jones functions as unofficial consul until Daniel Clark takes the job. | In 1799 the Cabildo purchases wooden stakes for grading the streets. Haphazard filling of low areas in streets have caused poor drainage in the city, giving residents an excuse to neglect sidewalks. | In 1799 Sindico Procurador General Pedro Barran reports that whites still attend black dances on Saturday nights, slaves used forged notes of permission and stole to dress well and gambling flourished in the municipal dance hall. His petition asks that the hall be closed or tough measures be used to stop abuses. The Cabildo conferred with acting governor Vidal who refused to act on the abuses. The councilors accepted in order to keep the theater open for the last half of the Carnival season believing that the dances would end when Lent began. When they did not the frustrated Barran asked for certified copies of the proceedings as evidence that his duty had been fulfilled. Without Vidal’s support the Cabildo could not stop the dances, when they canceled the concession in the city s building Coquet purchases a building on Conti street where he resumes the dances. | In 1799 in spite of a ban on importations of slaves governor Gayoso allows Santiago (James) Fletcher to bring in over 200 slaves for his personal use. Other Americans who entered the colony via the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers also brought slaves with them. | Oakley Plantation, where John James Audubon painted 32 of his Birds of America. is built in St. Francisville, La. by Ruffin Gray. It will be acquired as a state park in 1947 from Miss Lucy Mathews. |
Manuel Luis Gayoso de Lemos Joshua Baker |
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