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| South America & Caribbean:While Great Britain keeps Grenada it returns other Caribbean islands to France. | |||||||||||
| North America:At the Treaty of Paris Britain receives France's Canadian possessions, the island of Grenada and now has undisputed control of North America east of the Mississippi River. Spain cedes Florida to Britain, but has gained Louisiana West of the Mississippi from France. Cuba is returned to Spain. France withdraws from support of Ottawa tribes who want to drive the British back across the Allegheny. George III tries to stop westward expansion by British colonists. St. Louis has its beginning as a fur trading outpost. Most molasses is smuggled into New England since the 1733 Molasses Act. Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years War. Treatise on Tolerance by Voltaire; painting by Jean Baptiste Greuze. salicylic acid, aspirin, is first noted. | |||||||||||
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January 1763
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February 1763
February 10, 1763. The Treaty of Paris gives Louisiana west of the Mississippi and the ³Isle of Orleans² to Spain, but it will be several years before the Spanish assume control. |
March 1763
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April 1763
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May 1763
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June 1763
June 29 Jean Jacques Blaise D’Abbadie succeeds Louis Billouart de Kerlerec as Governor of Louisiana. |
July 1763
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August 1763
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October 1763
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November 1763
November 24, 1763; the old Bienville plantation (between Common St. and Felicity St.) is put up for auction after the Jesuits are expelled. The French government divides the land into six lots. Lot #1 of 7 arpents is sold to M. Pradel a Lt. in the French navy. The other five, all of 5 arpents, are also sold: #2 to Larrivee, merchant; #3 Grenier, merchant; #4 Bonpres. ex-infantry officer; #5 Mr. Saulet, citizen; #6 the brothers Durand, merchants. After passing through various owners these lands are incorperated into the city of New Orleans in 1812. |
December 1763
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| The Florida Parishes north of Lake Pontchartrain, including Baton Rouge area are now part of British West Florida until 1783. | The Spanish governor Antonio de Ulloa builds a fort near Burtville, La. on Bayou Manchac, the international boundary line.boundary line. | Nicholas Chauvin LaFreniere will be Attorney-General of Louisiana until 1769 when he is executed with other leaders of the revolt against Spain and Ulloa. | A grant made to Col. Gilbert A. de St. Maxent along Bayou Gentilly ³to a point called Chef Menteur². It became known as Maxent-DeClouet-LaFon-Michaud Tract; in 1923, ³Faubourg de Montluzin²; bought by ³New Orleans East, Inc.,² 1959, NASA Missile Plant, Michoud Operations located there, 9/7/1961. |
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