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| South America & Caribbean:Events of this year in this region influencing Louisiana. |
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| North America:The colony of Georgia prohibits importation of African slaves and rum. Settlement there spreads to Augusta and John Wesley forms the first Methodist society. A French settlement appears at Vincennes, Indiana near the Ohio River and St. Genevieve on the Missouri River. In New England a Scarlet fever epidemic begins; opera by Jean Philippe Rameau Nicolas Lancret and Hogarth paint; parliament passes a copyright law for artworks. Botulism discovered in German sausages. England is distilling a gallon of gin for every man, woman and child in the nation. |
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| Europe: Frenchman Alain Rene Lesage writes fiction. |
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November 1735
On November 16, 1735 a will is left by a mysterious sailor Jean Louis that leaves 200 Livres to ³the poor who are too proud to beg and one hundred livres to procure clothes for the most needy orphans² What ever else he possessed was to go toward founding a hospital for the sick of New Orleans. $4,000 was the legacy that would build Charity Hospital. Bienville wrote to France that the hospital would be used to put the street beggars to work. A hurricane blew the building down 40 years after being built. The facility was rebuilt (1784) and supported by Don Andres Almonester y Roxas who became its administrator. appointed by the King of Spain and named the Hospice of St. Charles in his honor.
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