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| South America & Caribbean:Venezuela breaks away from Bolivar's Gran Colombia. Spanish forces from Cuba take Tampico in Mexico, but lose it again later in the year. Mexico abolishes slavery, but the texas territory is exempted. | ||||||||||||
| North America:The Tom Thumb is the first American locomotive built by Peter Cooper. Cornelius Van Derbilt begins building steamships. Welland Sea Canal allows circumnavigation of the falls at Niagara. Edgar Allan Poe (20) writes, applies to West Point. | ||||||||||||
| Europe: Catholics regain some rights in England. Daguerre works with silver-iodide photography. Goethe, Rossini, Mendelddohn, Chopin. | ||||||||||||
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January 1829
January 19 ; the city of New Orleans is plunged into mourning upon the death of Father Pere Antoine Sedella. |
February 1829
February 7 New Orleans Gas Light Co. is incorporated. |
March 1829
On March 24 Bishop Leonidas Polk conducts first Episcopal service at the Church of the Holy Cross Episcopal in Shreveport . St. Paul’s Church formed 1845, renamed Grace Church 1851, renamed St. Mark’s 1859, St. Mark’s relocated 1954. Holy Cross organized 1954. |
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October 1829
October 6 After only 10 months in office P A C Bourguignon Derbigny is thrown from a carriage on the West Bank and dies three days later. He is replaced as governor for the next few months by Armand Beauvais. |
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| In 1829 the old call to move the capital to Baton
Rouge is met with a compromise as the legislature decides on Donaldsonville.
The Planters Association is financed by London’s Baring Brothers. |
Volunteer Company No. 1 is organized as the first competent fire fighting group in the city. By 1835 most of the city is covered by volunteer groups. |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk is born to a middle class Creole family. Though he leaves the city when he is twelve the foundations of Afro-Caribbean music, French Opera and traditional Creole melodies remained an integral part of his future compositions. He is trained in Paris and praised by Chopin and Liszt. Works like La Bamboula and The Banjo laid the foundations on which ragtime and jazz would be built. | General Alfred Mouton (1829-1864) Confederate brigadier General from Lafayette who served in Shiloh, Lafourche, Teche, and Red River campaigns is born. He will be killed in Mansfield, leading the Confederacy to its most important military victory west of the Mississippi. | The year that Pine Alley Plantation house is completed is not precisely known but the oak and pine alley of trees that leads from the Bayou Teche to the house is believed to have been planted by slaves in 1829. Its builder Charles J. Durand had arrived perhaps a decade before from France and already possessed great wealth. His family rode around in a set of gilded coaches and frequently bathed in perfumed waters. His first wife died after giving him twelve children. When she died he was inconsolable and even erected an iron statue of himself kneeling at her grave. When he finally wed again he had twelve children by his second wife, he felt it was only fair thing for a man of honor to do. On May 21, 1850 two of his daughters were married simultaneously. PAC Bourisgay Derbigny |
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