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| South America & Caribbean: A small rebellion in Mexico is quashed, but other Spanish colonies remain loyal to Ferdinand VII, who is imprisoned by the French. Argentine Confederation 1810-1816. | |||||||||||
| North America:West Florida is claimed by President Madison after a brief rebellion against Spanish rule. Albert Gallatin, U. S. Treasury Secretary announces a GNP of $120 million. U. S. cotton mills quadruple in number from last year. New York passes Philadelphia in population. New Orleans, bolstered by last year’s influx of refugees from St. Domingue has a population of 24,562, largest in the western U. S. Pittsburgh - 4,768; Lexington - 4,326; Cincinnati - 2,450; Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, Natchez about 1,000. 7.2 million in U. S. | |||||||||||
| Europe:Napoleon marries Austrian archduchess Maria Luisa by proxy in a union arranged by Austrian foreign minister Metternich. Napoleon annexes northern european states, including Holland, to further discourage smuggling of English goods. Differential gear invented by German Rudolph Ackerman revolutionizes carriage steering. Yellow Fever sweeps through several Spanish ports. Walter Scott, Francisco Goya, Goethe, Beethoven release works. Nicotine is identified as tobacco becomes a government monopoly in France. Britain has copied France’s success at canning foods adding a patent for tin plated steel containers. | |||||||||||
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In 1810 the St. Philip Theatre is the site of the first public celebration of the Fourth of July in Louisiana. |
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September 6 A Jacques Tanesse plan of lots below Barracks Street shows a public promenade which will be Esplanade Avenue. The lots are sold in consideration of an annual and perpetual rent of 6 percent on the amount of which the lot is sold. This type of land deal was common during the Spanish era. A plan was proposed in 1808 but was deferred until confirmation of the city's ownership. |
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| In 1810 Thomas Bolling Robertson replaces Graham as Secretary of Orleans Territory while Martin joins Lewis and Mathews as Supreme Court Justices. | 
All fortifications except Ft. St. Charles are demolished as Jacques Tanesse prepares a plan of division into lots of a part of the commons area between the city and a planned canal to the river by the Navigation Company. This division of lots keeps the line of fortifications in the middle of each block. The city purchases the plantation of Claude Treme, along the road to Bayou St. John, for $40,000. It is subdivided by Jacques Tanesse along with a similar area in back of the upper Vieux Carré. |
The Republic of West Florida briefly exists in the Florida Parishes. A second Spanish language newspaper El Mensajero, a semiweekly, appears in 1810. The Louisiana Planter begins publication. . |
In 1810 by Adelle vs. Beauregard the presumption that mulattoes were free unless proven otherwise had been established and the constant carrying of manumission papers was not necessary. | Oakley Plantation house is built near St. Francisville between 1808 and 1810 by James Pirrie a wealthy Scot and his bride Lucy Alston Gray. The house is surrounded by a paradise of trees, flowers and a plethora of birds. In fact it is largely known as the place that John James Audubon came in 1821 to tutor the Pirrie’s daughter and produce many of his Birds of America. The state of Louisiana was able to purchase the house in 1947 through the efforts of the Louisiana Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. | Thomy LaFon is born. He will become a businessman and real estate magnate. This free man of color will leave more than $600,000 to medical, educational and other charitable organizations when he dies in 1893. A school and nursing home will bear his name.
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