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| South America & Caribbean:Costa Rica becomes a republic. Pacific Mail Steamship Co. begins route across the Panama Isthmus to accommodate the gold rush to California. | |||||||||||
| North America:The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War on February 2. Mexico loses one third of its territory. Wisconsin becomes the 30th state. Child labor law in Pennsylvania. Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca, New York with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and and Lucretia Coffin Mott. The fifth Democratic national convention meets in Baltimore to nominate Lewis Cass for president. Whigs nominate Mexican War Hero Zachary Taylor over party leaders Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. Martin Van Buren is a Free Soil Party Candidate. Taylor wins with 167 electorial votes to Cass' 127. Gold discovered in California. Germans immigrate to Wisconsin, German Jews to New York and other large cities, some in the South. University of Mississippi established at Oxford. Telegraph line between New York and Chicago; Associated Press beginnings in New York. Oh! Susannah by Stephen Collins Foster, the Christy Minstrels. The Chicago Board of Trade. | |||||||||||
| Europe:Famine on the European continent. In Paris Louis Philippe is forced to abdicate, a new republic is proclaimed and Prince Louis Napoleon is elected president. Students and workers have rioted because of last year's Communist Manifesto and spread the revolution to other European capitals. Prince Metternich resigns in Vienna where the revolution is suppressed, but serfdom ended. Switzerland becomes a federal union. Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill. Karl Max returns to Cologne amid the revolution, but will be expelled again next year. British public health laws established. Charles Dickens; Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Anne Bronte; Alexandre Dumas; music by Johann Strauss. New golf ball technology. | |||||||||||
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Bienville Parish is created by an act of the state legislature which divides Claiborne Parish. The new parish, once part of Natchitoches County is named in honor of Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, founder of New Orleans and the first French Governor of Louisiana. |
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Zachary Taylor is elected President of the United States, the only person from his adopted state of Louisiana to be so honored. Although a slave holding planter he will urge admission of California as a free state and in a turnabout from earlier opinions, will denounce the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny. He warns against the threat of disunion. On July 4th 1850 he falls victim to an Asiatic cholera epidemic in Washington D. C. and is dead four days later. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore. The Parish of Iberia in Attakapas county is first proposed in an 1848 Louisiana Senate resolution. Paul Emile Johns, native of Cracaw, Poland, musician, friend of Frederick Chopin and Russian Consul in New Orleans from 1848 to 1860. He arrived in the city in 1820 and appeared in the city directory as a piano teacher In 1826 he started selling music imported from Paris Louis Moreau Gottschalk composes La Bamboula which incorporates themes from a dance in Congo Square by the same name. |
First called Colvin’s Post Office, Vienna, La. will be incorporated in 1848. It is an overnight stop on the Trenton-Shreveport Stage Road, later called the Wire Road when the telegraph line was strung along it. | The New Orleans Crescent begins publication. Telegraph service first used by the Picayune, which becomes charter member of the Associated Press. |
Cast Iron introduced to the city. Malleable cast iron reaches New Orleans and quickly becomes a favorite architectural detail, especially in the French Quarter where the Pontalba Buildings on Jackson Square are probably the first . | The Iberville Parish Courthouse, 1848-1906; Plaquemine City Hall, 1906-85. Built by George and Thomas Weldon of Mississippi is one of Louisiana’s oldest public buildings. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places | Linwood Plantation is built by Albert G. Carter in East Feliciana Parish. A portion of Sarah Morgan Dawson’s A Confederate Girl’s Diary was written here. The bombardment of Port Hudson and other events at Linwood are described in this important Civil War source. David Bannister Morgan BIRTHS Bienville Parish |
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