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| South America & Caribbean:Uruguayan civil war continues with siege of Montevideo which will last eight more years.. | |||||||||||
| North America:Oregon territory still claimed by Great Britain has been settled by 1,000 Americans.Terminus Georgia, now called Marthaville will be called Atlanta in four years. Yellow fever in the Mississippi River Valley is deadly. Holy Cross College in Mass. First long-distance telegraph line from Washington D. C. to Baltimore, Md.; first patented typewriter; Howe sewing machine. History of the Conquest of Mexico by W. H. Prescott; Edgar Allan Poe. John James Audubon travels up the Missouri to the mouth of the Yellowstone River to sketch wild animals. Minstrel groups first become popular and will grow in popularity for the next few decades. J. I Case threshers begin production. Bananas imported to New York. | |||||||||||
| Europe: S. S. Great Britain is the first iron hulled steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Sunday News of the World and the Economist begin publication in London; first Christmas cards. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; painting by J. M. W. Turner; music by Mendelssohn (Wedding March), Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Chopin, Donizetti. Cigarettes, long popular in Cuba, become part of French government controlled monopoly. . | |||||||||||
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Desoto Parish is created by the legislature from land that is first part of Natchitoches County, then Natchitoches Parish. Bossier Parish is created by an act of the state legislature from Natchitoches County. The parish seat is in Fredonia, but before the end of the year the town's name is changed to Society Hill, then to Bellevue. |
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| Alexander
Mouton becomes Governor of Louisiana. His home in Lafayette, La.,
built in 1836 is now a museum. Entrepreneur James Robb began making a
name for himself in financial circles by acquiring controlling interest
in the New Orleans Gas Light and Banking Company and now is the senior
partner in a private banking firm. He has also organized a gas light company
in Havana Cuba and has been elected an alderman in the second municipal
district.
Hugues de la Vergne kills himself by falling on his own sword. His has been a life of ill fated intrigue. As a young man he was on his way to Paris to study mathematics at the Polytechnic School. While waiting for his ship in Philadelphia in 1811 he is befriended by an affable French Officer who offers him and earlier passage, entree to the Emperor Napoleon, and drafts on a Viennese bank. The officer turns out to be a deserter and the papers he carries land him in the dreaded La Force prison. In prison he is befriended by a French cardinal in the next cell. This story has amazing parallels to Alexander Dumas’ Story of The Count of Monte Cristo during the same period of history. De la Vergne is later helped by the Marquis de Lafayette and the deserter is returned to France and tried as a criminal. Before he is tried he slashes his throat with a knife and dies. De la Vergnes returns to New Orleans and eventually becomes a banker and is named president of the Consolidated Bank at Toulouse and Royal. In 1843 irregularities are found in the bank’s records and he reacts by crossing the river and impaling himself near his ancestor’s graves in Algiers. He is later cleared of the irregularities. Jean-Louis Marciacq, a French immigrant who is white, is the editor of L’Album Littéraire, Journal des Jeunes gens, amateurs de Littérature, a short lived literary journal whose contributors are free men of color. Many of its writers also contributed to Les Cenelles (1845). Marciacq arrived in New Orleans before 1842, aged 23, to teach free people of color with a Joseph Bazanac, a Cuban mulatto. |
912 Commerce Street in Shreveport, where Gen. Smith lived 1863-65 while Commander of Trans-Miss. Dept. CSA is built 1843; demolished 1960. Originally home of La. Supreme Court Judge Thomas T. Land. The second St. Charles Theater, built by Noah Ludlow and Sol Smith near St. Charles and Poydras. |
Tensas Parish is created with St. Joseph as the parish seat. Rare example, for deep south, of a town planned and constructed around New England style village green. Historic district listed on National Register of Historic Places. | One of the oldest Episcopal churches in the Mississippi Valley. St. John’s Parish organized in February. The cornerstone of church is laid January, 1844. The Church is consecrated, March, 1844, by Bishop Leonidas Polk, the first Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana. | Abbeville, formerly La Chapelle, is founded by Father Antoine Desire Megret, a native of Abbeville, France, on land purchased from Joseph LeBlanc. The city will became the parish seat of Vermilion in 1845. incorporated by the state in 1850. Home of the Louisiana Dairy Festival. |
Built in 1844, the Harvey Castle was the Gothic Revival home of Marie Louise Destrehan and her husband Joseph Hale Harvey. It served as the third courthouse of Jefferson Parish, 1874-84. Located east side of Destrehan Avenue 450 feet north of railroad. Demolished in 1924 to enlarge the Harvey Canal and Locks. Armand Beauvais Louis Alfred Wiltz Desoto Parish Bossier Parish |
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