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| South America & Caribbean:Bolivar crosses the Andes to defeat a superior Spanish force and declares the independence of Gran Colombia (1819-1830) which includes Venezuela, New Granada and Quito. . | ||||||||||||
| North America:Alabama becomes the 22nd state as Spain officially cedes Florida to the United States. Memphis and Minneapolis are laid out on the Mississipppi River. Irish immigrants are building the Erie Canal, but thousands perish from disease. University of Virginia, U. of Cincinnati. | ||||||||||||
| Europe: Keats, Walter Scott and Lord Byron. | ||||||||||||
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January 1819
January 9, 1819; Benjamin Latrobe, architect and engineer arrives in New Orleans to rebuild his lost fortune. He was born in Yorkshire, England May 1, 1766 and was educated in England and Germany. He moved to Philadelphia in 1796 to successfully install that city’s first waterworks. He petitioned to repeat his success in New Orleans as early as 1809, finally gaining the contract in 1814 through his son. His son dies of yellow fever Sept. 3, 1817. While working on the city’s waterworks. He constructs a clock tower for the St. Louis Cathedral and begins the Louisiana State Bank building at 403 Royal St. Before completing the latter he dies from yellow fever exactly three years to the day after his son. |
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| 1819 Zachary Taylor is stationed in Louisiana and brings his family with him. He establishes a home in Bayou Sara (St. Francisville) but delays a purchase of a plantation when his two youngest daughters die from a bilious fever. He is ordered by General Edmund Gaines to establish Fort Jesup above Natchitoches in order to protect western Louisiana from constant threat of Indian raiders. In Baton Rouge he builds the barracks known today as the Pentagon Buildings. | The Pentagon Buildings constructed 1819-1822 to house U.S. troops. They are used as a garrison from 1822-1977 except from 1861-1862 when held by Confederates. From 1886-1925 these buildings and grounds were the site of Louisiana State University. | La Gazette de Baton Rouge begins publication. |
Michel Fortier John Hunter Johnson Nathaniel Evans George F. Sheply Robert Charles Wickliffe |
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