1728 |
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| South America & Caribbean:The University of La Habana established in Cuba. |
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| North America:Bering Straight discovered. |
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| Europe: Spanish King Philipe V begins a 14 month seige of Gibralter. Ephraim Chambers publishes the first Cyclopedia in London. Former Benedictine monk Abbe Provost publishes fictional Memoirs and Adventures of a man of Quality; French painter Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin; playright Pierre de Marivaux; English poetry by Alexander Pope; novelist Henry Fielding; music by George Frederick Handel. |
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January 1728
January 21, 1728; de Noyan, Bienville’s brother, attorney, and a Lt. in the French army sells his plantation of 5 arpents to the Jesuits Fathers. The Jesuit plantation (Common St. to Felicity) will be confiscated in 1763.
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December 1728
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Ignace François Broutin is the king s engineer who updates the map of New Orleans in 1728. In a few years he will design the first Ursulines Convent built by Dubreuil.
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