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| North America:. Vice President John C. Calhoun defines state soverigneity, inviting South Carolina to call null, void and no law, the 1828 Tariff of Abominations. The first Democratic national convention meets in Baltimore. It nominates Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, to run for a second term as president over Henry Clay. Calhoun is replaced on the ticket by Martin Van Buren. New England Anti-Slavery Society formed in Boston. U. S. government has exclusive authority over Indians says Supreme Court. Creek, Chicasaw sign over their land east of the Mississippi River. Sack and Fox Indians agree to remain west of the river. Seminoles agree to move west of the Mississippi. Black Hawk War lasts four months. French-American Army Captain Benjamin-Louis Eulalie de Bournville leaves Ft. Osage on the Missouri to explore the Rocky Mountains. Steamboat on Lake Michigan, canal from Cleveland to the Ohio River, Wabash Canal begun. First clipper ship for China Trade.Erie Railroad, New York and Harlem Railroad. Cholera reaches New York and will kill 4,000. Samuel F. B. Morse develops electric telegraph. Francis Milton Trollope writes Domestic Manners of Americans. Rock of Ages by Thomas Hastings, America by Samuel Francis Smith. Jim Crow is a blackface song and dance act in Louisville. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Reform Act in Englandenfranchises upper middle class and redistributes voting power. While another revolt in Italy is quelled Germans demand a republic as Austria's Prince Metternich imposes penalties on unauthorized meetings, universities and suspicious characters. Screw propeller designed in France. Cholera reaches Scotland from Russia, Spreads to New York. Codeine isolated from Opium in France. Fiction by George Sand; poetry by Goethe just before his death, painting by Constable and Delacroix. Caricaturist Honore Daumier. Music by Mendelssohn. | |||||||||||
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New Basin Canal in its first full year of construction in New Orleans. A cholera epidemic - 6,000 perish in 20 day. One hospital is deserted by the physicians and ordered burned. |
The St. Philip Theatre (721 St. Philip) becomes the Washington Ballroom in 1832, site of many masked Mardi Gras balls, quadroon balls and dramatic productions and a favorite resort of the demi-monde. The building will be modified in later years to the Jefferson Davis Boy’s High School for the Second District (1861.) In 1931 the site is purchased by the city, the building is demolished and in its place is built the present day McDonogh 15. | Mrs. Trollope writes in Domestic Manners of the Americans that New Orleans presents very little that can gratify the eye of taste, but never the less there is much of novelty and interest for a newly arrived European. | A new Charity Hospital is built for $150,000 in a block bounded by Gironde (LaSalle St.) Gravier, St. Mary (South Robinson) and Common Streets. With contributions from Julien Poydras, Thomy Lafon and John Burnside, among others, it will last for 100 years. It has a ward for women of good character and one for those of bad character. | The Cane-Bennett Trading Post established July 1, by James Cane and his brother-in-law William Smith Bennett, both from New Hampshire, on the bluff where Shreveport will be founded 1836. Greensburg becomes the St. Helena Parish seat. Land for the Court House Square is donated by William Kendrick in 1837. The present building completed 1938 replaces a brick structure built 1855. Livingston Parish is created by the state legislature Named for Edward Livingston. Courthouse sites include: Van Buren (1832-1835), Springfield (1835-1872), Port Vincent (1872-1881), Centerville (1881-1941), Livingston (1941-Present). |
Named after the site of Napoleon’s victory over the Austrians and Russians in 1805, Austerlitz Plantation House is built by the Breaux family in 1852. It is perhaps one of the last examples of the Louisiana Colonial style of architecture except the central hall and the gallery is extended all the way around the house. It is bought in 1886 by the Rougon family.
Louis Casimir Moreau-Lislet James Workman Elizabeth Lyle Saxon |
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