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| North America:Chippewa warriors drive Sioux tribes from wild rice fields of Minnesota. Cumberland Gap is discovered and aids expansion to the west.The Iron Act is generally ignored in the North American colonies. Bituminous coal in Virginia. Flatboat invented by Pennsylvanian Jacob Yoder. Puritans buy West Indies sugar to distill rum, which pays for slave trade. | |||||||||||
| Europe:Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Jose de Carvajal and British ambassador Benjamin Keene sign a commercial treaty that solves most of the maritime problems forgotten at the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. The treaty is bitterly resented by the French who see it as a sign of Spanish Bourbon independence. Famine continues to plague France, but there are 22 million Frenchmen making it by far the most populous European nation. England's Iron Act essentially outlaws iron manufacturing in the American colonies, but bar and pig iron is allowed to trade for finished materials from England. With a change of monarchs in Portugal the Inquisition is banished from the country. Westminster Bridge is the first across the Thames in seven centuries. Fanny Hill by John Cleland, theatre by Goldoni, music by Johann Sebastian Bach who dies this year.There are 750 million people on earth, 225 million in China. |
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| A trading post on the Mississippi River is the future site of Donaldsonville. The area is known as the Second Acadian Coast. | Joseph Sorrel, in cattle business from 1750s had land claims of over 3000 acres between Jeanerette and Franklin along Old Cattle Route from Mexico to Vacherie on the Mississippi. | François Pascalis de La Barre, I, a noted colonial official, owned a river-to-lake tract in 1750. Metairie, called popularly ³La Plaine LaBarre.² for years because of further family holdings. | A French corp du garde is built on the Place d Armes in New Orleans on the site of the future Cabildo. It is destroyed in the great fire of 1788. |
Michel Fortier Isaac Johnson James Mather |
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