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| North America:The Alamo falls to Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna in San Antonio. A month and a half later he is taken prisoner by forces under Sam Houston at San Jacinto. A republic is proclaimed between the Rio Grande and Neuces Rivers. City of Houston founded. The second Democratic national convention meets in Baltimore to nominate Martin Van Buren for president. Support by Andrew Jackson helps him defeat four other candidates led by William Henry Harrison. Arkansas becomes the 25th state. S.S. Beaver is the first steamboat on the Pacific Coast. Erie Canal widened and deepened; Long Island Railroad; first Canadian railroad. Samuel Colt invents six-shooter. Phosphorous match invented by Mass. shoemaker. McGuffey's readers first published. Philadelphia Public Ledger begins publication; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edgar Allan Poe. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Civil war is spreading in Spain. Electric cell improvedwith long working life. Galvanized iron. Sketches by Boz is first publication by court reporter Charles Dickens; painting by J.M.W. Turner, Constable, Corot; Mendelssohn. Arc de Triomphe completed. | |||||||||||
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March 8 A new charter divides New Orleans into 3 separate municipalities with one mayor and a General Council. |
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| New Orleans divided into three municipalities. The French Quarter is the Second Municipality, everything from Canal to Felicity is the first and Faubourg Marigny is the third. | The port of New Orleans surges ahead of New York as the nation’s busiest as ships are docked six deep at the river front. This year the state legislature will incorporate companies whose cumulative capital is an astounding $39 million. | Chartres Street is called the Broadway of New Orleans. It is the most fashionable street for shopping and promenading, with a string of milliners, jewelers and parfumeries that stretched from Canal street to Jackson Square. | The Red River Herald scoops the world with the first account of the fall of the Alamo in Texas. | Dr. Edward Duffel builds Mulberry Grove Plantation house for his bride Anne Marie Antoinette Desirée Landry. The house on the west bank was being used as a hay barn in 1951 when Mrs. C. C. Clifton restored it for a private residence.
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