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| South America & Caribbean:Brazil proclaims itself an empire and Argentina declares its independence. Chile also gains independence. | |||||||||||
| North America:James Monroe becomes president. Indiana becomes the 19th state. Pittsburgh incorporated as a city. Snows fall in the United States trhough much of the summer after a vocanic eruption last year inthe East Indies. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Luddites riot again. The celeripede is a two wheeled vehicle propelled by foot action on the ground. Lord Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Jane Austin, Walter Scott, Rossini | |||||||||||
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March 1816
The town of Covington, previously called Wharton, is granted a charter March 11, 1816, and named in honor of General Leonard A. Covington, war hero of 1812. |
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July 1816
In the gubernatorial election to choose a successor to William C. C. Claiborne, Jacques Philippe Villere narrowly defeats Joshua Lewis on July 1. |
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September 1816
September 12 Nicholas Provost the "Father of Jeanerette" is buried in Iberia Parish. One of the area’s first landowners the town of Jeanerette grew up on site of his plantation. His descendants have been prominent in local history. September 30 A dreadful fire destroys over 60 houses in the French Quarter. |
October 1816 | October 7
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December 1816
December 17 Jacques Philippe Villere takes office as Louisiana’s second state governor. He understood the growth of power of the American population and spends most of his term trying to mediate the differences between the Americans and the Creoles. He did little to exercise the enormous power that the office of governor gave to him. His birthplace near present day Kenner on a concession La Providence of the 1720s-30s on the Chim de la Metairie. |
After the Orleans Theatre is built in 1816 the St. Philip Theatre loses some of its luster and becomes principal site of the quadroon balls. |
Fort Selden in Natchitoches Parish is occupied 1816-17 and 1819-22. The purpose was to police the southwestern frontier and guard Red River and Bayou Pierre. General Edmund P. Gaines, commander of the Western Department, had his headquarters here for a time. | Captain Thomas Paul Leathers of steamboat Natchez fame is born in 1816 in Kentucky. |
Samuel Levi Wells II Benjamin Franklin Flanders |
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