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| South America & Caribbean:Independence of the United Provinces of Central America is recognized by Mexico, but will dissolve by 1840. | |||||||||||
| North America:U. S. troops defeat Black Hawk in the Illinois country. Mexico’s new emperor confirms the grant made to Stephen F. Austin in Texas. The Monroe Doctrine is proclaimed in a state of the union address. James Fenimore Cooper, Clement Clark Moore’s St. Nick. | |||||||||||
| Europe: France invades Spain to restore Ferdinand VII. First electro magnet. Lord Byron, Rossini, von Weber, Schubert, rugby. Faraday peoneers mechanical refrigeration. | |||||||||||
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January 1823
Governor Thomas Bolling Robertson makes a first attempt to move the capital to Baton Rouge. In January, Creole forces in the legislature try to remove the Florida parishes’ representatives, complaining that the addition to the state of this area by Congress was unconstitutional. January 17 an act to create and establish a new Parish in the County of Attakapas, to be called the parish of Lafayette. |
February 1823
Legal Carnival balls return to New Orleans. |
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| Businessman and promoter John Davis features The Barber of Seville at the Theatre d’ Orleans in the French Quarter. | The Cottage Plantation house is a two story, twenty-two room mansion with wide galleries on all four sides begun in 1823 by Colonel Abner Duncan. The house on the River Road is presented to his daughter and her husband Frederick Daniel Conrad, as a wedding gift. Its style is one of the earliest examples of Greek Revival. The walls are traditional thick brick below supporting wooden walls above. All twenty-two rooms open on to the super wide galleries that let in constant river breezes. It serves Union troops during the Civil War as a yellow fever hospital, a fact that deters looters for the many years that it stands empty afterward. The house, also known as The Conrad place will be destroyed by fire in 1960. |
Jean Noel Destrehan Oliver Pollock |
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