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| Europe: The collapse of England's South Sea Company precedes the Mississippi Bubble in France. Meanwhile, John Law has shipped some goods and settlers to Louisiana before the collapse of his bank late in the year. The Treaty of the Hague resolves the claims of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI to the Spanish throne and Spanish king claims Parma for his son Charles who will later rule over Louisiana. The Black Death kills 50,000 in Marsailles, famine and typhus in Sicily. George Frideric Handel directs London's Royal Academy of Music. | |||||||||||
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March 20 Renault d'Hauterive becomes commandant at Natchitoches as Louis Juchereau de St. Denis receives appointment as commandant sur le Haute de la Riviere aux Cannes (of the upper Cane river) from the directors of the India Company of the Indies, confirmed by Bienville as commandant of the Upper Cane River the next year. |
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August 11 De Pauger, as senior assistant to De la Tour recruits 60 construction workmen and sails from France on Le Chameau reaching Biloxi November 24. |
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December 1720
December 17, 1720 De La Tour sails with other engineers on Le Dromadaire arrives in Biloxi on this date. Also along is his brother, a chaplain, draftsman Bernard Deverges, a surgeon, nine servants, 12 workmen, 29 soldiers and a captain. December 20 De La Tour and the Superior Council decide to move Biloxi to a better site on the other side of the bay. |
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De la Tour draws a new plan for New Orleans while in Biloxi, at the time the capital of the fledgling province. It shows a rectangular layout 4 blocks deep by 11 blocks width. The streets parallel to the river are Quay, Chartres, Royale and Bourbon. He titles the river St. Louis but notes that the natives call it Mississippi or Meshassepi. The plan shows elaborate fortifications and a moat surrounding the fort. |
A concession is granted by Governor Bienville to the father of Nicholas Chauvin LaFreniere, Attorney-General of Louisiana for the years 1763 until 1769; leader of the revolt against Spanish rulers of Louisiana. He is executed October 25, 1769. | France names John Law controller-general with power over the entire French economy, but Law’s so-called Mississippi Company has failed to attract reputable emigrants, New Orleans remains no more than a dismal collection of wooden shacks, Law’s grandiose scheme turns out to be a speculative stock fraud and although the company has increased shipping between France and New Orleans and has brought some colonists to Louisiana, the collapse of the "Mississippi Bubble" ruins many investors. | Le district des Allemandes settled by Germans. | When the French Parliament repeats its clash with the Regency over financial matters the whole body is exiled outside of Paris en bloc. Another conflict, this one with the church will last for a haldf sentury and will conclude in the suprression in France of the Society of Jesus. This will be demonstrated in Louisiana, by the seizure and sale of the Jesuit plantation just upriver from the city of New Orleans in 1763. |
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac |
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