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1809 |
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| Previous Hispanola: With British troops in Spain to drive out Napoleon s brother, Spain is now at war with France again.
Spanish leaders in Cuba and Puerto Rico drive out French refugees who have not become Spanish citizens or married Spanish women.
October -December 1809; Saint-Domingue refugees move en masse from Cuba to New Orleans. Some will be forced to flee in small open boats, but many are evacuated in flotillas organized by the American administration in Louisiana.
Next South America & Caribbean:Events of this year in this region influencing Louisiana. |
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| North America:John Steven’s steamboat makes its first ocean voyage from New York to Philadelphia. The Illinois Territory is carved from Indiana Territory. General William Henry Harrison negotiates a treaty for 3 million acres of Indian land. The Hudson Bay Co. of Canada lays claim to land that includs what is now the northwestern United States. The embargo of British goods ends, temporarily. An ovarian cyst is removed by a surgeon in Kentucky. Miami University of Ohio. Elizabeth Ann Seton, who will become America’s first saint, establishes the Sisters of Charity. The legend of St. Nicholas is born in the comic writings of Diedrich Knickerbocker, also known as Washington Irving.Events in North America this year influencing Louisiana. | ||||||||||||
| Europe: Britain and France continue to battle for domination of the Iberian peninsula. Austrian armies take advantage of Napoleon’s abscence from the eastern front. He pushes the Austrians back, but at great cost. By October a new treaty brings Austria into the Continental System. Napoleon divorces Josephine and annexes the Papal States. Joseph Bonaparte loses Spain to the future Duke of Wellington. Events in Europe this year influencing Louisiana. | ||||||||||||
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January 1809
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February 1809
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March 1809
Governor Foch is near giving up preservation of West Florida for any surviving Spanish monarch. Claiborne will alert Washington next month that Foch is ready to deliver. |
April 1809
The Floridas, on the verge of starvation, are being ignored by the Spanish government. Foch almost begs Claiborne to take West Florida. President Madison's Secretary of War, William Eustice, passes on to Wilkinson the president's desire not to interfer with the Spanish territories. In the Spring of 1809 there are 24 U. S. gunboats in service around the New Orleans area. |
May 1809
Indian trader Anthony Glass relates a story to Dr. John Sibley about a large mass of metal. Two groups rushed to the huge shiney rock near Denison Texas and returned it with much effort to Natchitoches. |
June 1809
June 7 A Jacques Tanesse Plan of New Orleans is approved showing the proposed canal through the commons above the city and two rows of Sycamore trees on each side of the Place d'Armes. |
July 1809
Zachary Taylor spends the summer of 1809 encamped in the swamps of Terre aux Boeufs (St. Bernard Parish) with controversial General James Wilkinson and the perils of yellow fever. He marries next year in Louisville and will have five children, four daughters and a son, Richard Taylor, who distinguishes himself during the Red River Campaign of the Civil War. |
August 1809
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September 1809
September 23 The Charity Hospital built by Almonester burns to the ground. Patients are moved to the upper gallery of City Hall (the cabildo) and later to the Jourdan plantation below the city. |
October 1809
October -December 1809; Saint Domingue refugees move en masse from Cuba to New Orleans. Some will be forced to flee in small open boats, but many are evacuated in flotillas organized by the American administration in Louisiana. Many refugees from Saint Domingue will congregate in back of town and Faubourg Marigny where their building traditions are in evidence. Others will eventually fan across French-speaking south Louisiana and other areas along the Gulf coast. The influence of these refugees and their descendents in Louisiana is unmistakable. Familiar names who settle in New Orleans include Morphy, Gottshalk, and lawyers Moreau-Lislet and Etienne Mazureau. Free people of color include composer/director Edmond Dede, fiery publisher Louis Roudanez, historian R. L. Desdunes, poet Armand Lanusse and public spirited nun Henriette de Lisle. |
November 1809
With the French population increased since last years refugee influx Jean Le Clerc establishes L'ami Des Lois et Journal du Soir. |
December 1809
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 The Charity Hospital structure built by Andres Almonester in the 1780s burns to the ground in 1809. L'Ami des lois et journal du soir The Friend of Law is published until 1834 when it is emerged with L'Abeille de la Nouvelle Orleans |
James Madison becomes President of the U.S. American Schooners out of Neww Orleans the Financier and the Celestine carried letters from Spanish imperialists in New Orlaans to Spanish merchants in Compeche and Laguna implicating the owners and officers of these ships as an expedition against Mexico. Spaniards in Merida also learned of the plot which included Joseph Rufignac,a Count, Ciriaco Cevallos, a refugee from Vera Cruz, Vicente Folch, govrnor of West Florida and captains Vidal, Argote and Declouet. The Financier is released, the Celestine remains capturedalong with Jacob Hart, Jr. owner of Celestine, also Jean Robert, a naturalized U. S. Citizen. They are finally released,returned to New Orleans. They took up piracy from Barataria with the smugglers. |
In 1809 Joseph Bellechasse becomes Council President, Martin becomes Attorney General and Julien Poydrasis elected to replace Daniel Clark as Congressional delegate from the territory. | Dr. Walter Brashear, famed as a surgeon in Kentucky, settles in the Attakapas area (Tiger Island Plantation). He becomes a large landowner and sugar planter in St. Mary, serving many years in Louisiana Legislature. He was born in Maryland in 1776 and dies in Louisiana in 1860. The town of Brashear, now Morgan City will be incorporated 1860. | Births Prudent Mallard (1809-1879) will be one of New Orlean’s leading cabinet makers and furniture merchants. |
Prudent Francis Mallard |
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