| 1763 June 29 |
D’Abbadie replaces Louis Billouart de Kerlerec as governor of Louisiana. One of the last officials appointed for Louisiana by the French government prior to the establishment of the Spanish domination. D’Abbadie arrives in New Orleans with the title of director and commandant, and Gov. Louis Billouart de Kerlerec soon after departs for France. D’Abbadie soon informs his government that the colony is in a state of complete destitution and was a den of iniquities. |
| 1764 April 6 |
Governor D’Abbadie announces that four Acadian families have arrived in New Orleans, 20 people in all. The are the first of a large influx of the wandering Canadiens. About this time the rumor becomes rife among the colonists that they were soon to pass under the domination of Spain. |
| 1764 October |
D’Abbadie publishes a letter, signed by Louis XV and his minister, the Duke de Choiseul, dated April 21, 1764, in which the governor is informed of the cession to Spain by a secret treaty of 1762. It orders him to deliver to representatives Spain, whenever they present themselves the colony of Louisiana, and dependant posts, together with the island of New Orleans. The instructions in the letter also order him to contact all officers, soldiers and employees and to send to France, or other French colonies in America, those who do not wish to remain under the Spanish administration when the Spanish governor and troops have taken full possession. |
| 1765 February |
D’Abbadie did not live to see Louisiana pass into the hands of Spain. He dies at New Orleans and is succeeded by Charles Philippe Aubry, the senior captain of the troops in Louisiana who sees to the formal transfer of the province to Spanish officials a few months later. |