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| North America: Fugative Slave Act upheld by Supreme Court reversing Wisconsin court decision of 1854. John Brown raids Harper's Ferry federal arsenal. Fedeeral troops under Col. Robert E. Lee capture him. Georgia prohibits posthumous manumission of slaves by last will and testament, and allows free blacks to be sold into slavery if indicted as vagrants. Oregon becomes 33rd state Gold Rush on in Colorado and Nevada. Black gold in Titusville, Pa. as oil production begins, electric batteries light incandescent lamps with platinum strip filaments in Massachusetts. North American Telegraph Association becomes monopoly. Rocky Mountain News in Montana Territory. Poetry by Longfellow; painting by Whistler, Frederick Church . The Octaroon or Life in Louisiana by Dion Boucicault in New York adapted from novel The Octaroon by Mayne Reid. Dixie by Daniel Decatur Emmet is popular. Steinway pianos. Niagara Falls first crossed on tightrope, first intercollegiate baseball game. Paraffin wax.A nad P retail food chain beginnings | ||||||||||||
| Europe: France declares war on Austria. Lionel Rothchild is the first Jewish member of t he British House of Commons. Lesseps begins Suez Canal. Darwin publishes his Origin of Species. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Adam Bede by George Eliot. Poetry by TennysonThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald, poetry my Mistral; painting my Manet, Millet, Ingres. Opera by Verdi.; music by Brahms. First flying trapeze act in Paris. | ||||||||||||
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Thomas Overton Moore defeats Thomas Jefferson Wells 24,434 votes to 15,587 to become Louisiana's war-time governor. |
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk completes La Nuit des Tropiques subtitled Symphonie Romantique. The composition is not a symphony in the classical sense but a two movement poem based on musical ideas drawn from the Americas. It was neither published or performed for nearly a century after his death in 1869. Abbé Adrien Rouquette (1813-1887), poet and priest, lived as missionary among the Choctaw Indians in the region of Bayou Lacombe, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, from 1859 till his death. The Choctaws called him Chahta Ima, meaning like a Choctaw. His brother Dominique (1810-1890) Rouquette was also a poet, published in Paris, a would be lawyer and teacher and in his later years an eccentric vagabond who wandered the city reciting his poetry to anyone who would listen. |
The French Opera House is completed on the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse Streets in the French Quarter. It opens to a production of William Tell. It was designed by the architectural firm of Gallier and Esterbrook with a five tier Greek Revival interior that seated 2,000. After the Civil war it never quite regained its glory. It was sold at a Sheriff's auction in 1873 and had a brief revival but no operas played there between 1887 and 1906. It burned down in 1919. The city's first pump, called the Melpomene Machine, is installed to help drain the Garden District. Before this year drainage was aided canals that today make up the neutral grounds on many of the streets that cross St. Charles. |
The House at 1448 Fourth St. is designed by Henry Howard and is known as Col. Short's Villa or the Cornstalk Fence House because of its cast iron fence. The Smith-Godchaux House in New Orleans, designed by noted nineteenth century architect Henry Howard is built. Significant for its painted interiors, it has more fresco wall decoration and stenciling than probably any other mid-nineteenth century residence in the south. Theodore Bruning opens Bruning's Seafood Restaurant (now West End Park) on the Lakefront. |
The Olivet Episcopal Church is completed and
consecrated by Bishop Leonidas
Polk. Construction is supervised by Charles Schraeder, a native of
Germany. The wife of Rev. Amos D. McCoy of church in Alexandria initiated
the construction of the chapel. The Hebron Baptist Church built this year is the oldest in Livingston Parish. Organized April 1837 the first church is a log cabin . The frame church is built n 1859 on 4 acres of land. In 1918 and 1955 larger churches are built. |
Town of Breaux Bridge is founded. The 1958 Louisiana Legislature officially designated Breaux Bridge La Capitale Mondiale De L Ecrevisse in honor of its centennial year . | First floor of Southdown Plantation House built by William J. Minor of Natchez, Mississippi. Second floor added in 1893 by Henry C. Minor. In the 1920s the Southdown management pioneered development of disease-resistant POJ sugarcane varieties.
Thomas Overton Moore defeats Thomas Jefferson Wells for governor. |
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