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| North America:Aaron Burr is captured and brought to trial in Richmond, but he will be acquitted. After a U.S. frigate is attacked and four sailors taken as British deserters, Jefferson closes American ports to British shipping. Merchants and shippers all along the American coast protest Jefferson’s embargo of American shipping. The first regular commercial steamboat service appears on the Hudson river through the efforts of Robert Fulton, Robert Livingston and inventor Nicholas Roosevelt. Carbonated water on sale in New York City. University of Maryland. | |||||||||||
| Europe:France proves to be agriculturally self sufficient and fares better than Britain despite the blockade begun last year. Another Bonaparte assumes a German throne as Napoleon forces Russia and Prussia to sign treaties as he continues to advance eastward. French Armies overrun Portugal which has refused to join Napoleon’s Continental System which embargoes Britain. The Portuguese Royal family flees to Brazil. Denmark and Russia make alliances with France as Britain takes the Danish fleet. Emancipation is granted to Prussian serfs, but not to English Catholics. British parliament forbids slave trade. Phrenology is the rage in Paris. In England a machine is developed to produce continuous sheets of paper from wood pulp, making newspapers more practical. Wordsworth and Charles Lam write. Beethoven composes. | |||||||||||
January 1807
 James Mather, Englishman by birth, is the fourth mayor of New Orleans serving from 1807-1812. Word of the Burr Conspiracy moves General James Wilkinson to begin rebuilding the fortifications. This effort is minimal, short and very expensive. Governor Folch of West Florida requests that he and 400 Spanish soldiers be allowed to pass through New Orleans on their way to Baton Rouge to help defend against the rumored army of Aaron Burr. He writes to the Marques de Someruelos the Captain-General in Havana that he believes that the Americans and the British are conspiring to seize the Spanish colonies on the Gulf of Mexico. |
February 1807
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March 1807
March 31 The legislature divides the state into 19 parishes, but the 12 counties continue to exist for various reasons until 1845. |
April 1807
Folch refuses to allow American troops on a ship at Mobile to sail up river to reach Fort Stoddart. He may be meeting with Wilkinson to coordinate defenses. He meets with Claiborne late in April. Wilkinson writes to Dearborn that he believes that Mobile and Pensacola can be taken easily, but does not have Claiborn's desire for battle. |
May 1807
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June 1807
June 8 Governor William C. C. Claiborne is shot in the thigh at ten paces in a duel with Daniel Clark. |
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August 1807
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September 1807
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October 1807
Folch permits supplies that are detained at Mobile to be delivered up river and drops duties that Americans had been paying since Galvez took the area from the British in 1788. |
November 1807
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December 1807
Congress enacts the Jefferson Embargo. Claiborne has gunboats on Lake Pontchartrain and partially blockades Bayou Manchac to prevent smuggling Folch does receive 1500 barrels of flour through the efforts of Jose Vidal, the Spanish vice-consul at New Orleans, Abner L. Duncan, a legal advisor to Wilkinson and the firm of Kenner and Henderson |
| In 1807 Julian Poydras again becomes President of the Territorial Council while Brown becomes Attorney General and Lewis replaces Sprigg as a Supreme Court Justice. | A fire department is created in New Orleans , but a well organized and competent group will not exist until 1829. |
Glendale Plantation House is distinguished by a one hundred foot front gallery, elaborate mantels made on the plantation, imported octagonal tile on the ground floor and a spacious attic. Its foundations were laid in 1807 and the house finished a few years later. This private residence is located on the West Bank. | Evan Jones begins cultivation of sugar at Evan Hall Plantation near Bayou Lafourche in Ascension Parish. The plantation eventually becomes Evan Hall Sugar Cooperative during the 1930s. |
Deaths: Carondelet Francisco Luis Carondelet |
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