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| South America & Caribbean:Previous Hispanola: 1764 White planters or Gran Blancs who control the Superior Council of Saint Domingue begin a series of laws in 1764 that restrict the rights of mulattoes who have grown in numbers and prosperity. The first prohibition of mulattoes is against the practice of medicine and pharmacology.Next | |||||||||||
| North America:The Sugar Act replaces the 1733 Molasses Act, reducing duties on product introduced from non-British sources, but taking steps to reduce smuggling. Taxation without representation first becomes popular cry in Boston as a policy of non-importation becomes popular. Rhode Island College will become Brown University. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Parliament votes to prevent colonies from printing their own money. Thyphus in Naples. Parisian system of measuring and and naming sizes of type; Theatre by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort; Music by Haydn. London begins numbering houses. | |||||||||||
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January 1764
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February 1764
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March 1764
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April 1764
April 6 Governor Jean Jacques Blaise D’Abbadie announces that four Acadian families have arrived in New Orleans, 20 people in all. the first of a large influx of the wandering Canadiens. About this time the rumor becomes rife among the colonists that they were soon to pass under the domination of Spain. |
May 1764
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June 1764
British Lt. Philip Pittman is in New Orleans in the summer of 1764 on his way to Baton Rouge which is now British territory. With him probably comes the first solid news of the cession to Spain. |
July 1764
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August 1764
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September 1764
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October 1764
October Jean Jacques Blaise D’Abbadie announces the King's instructions for the transfer of the colony to Spain which is to occur on February 4, 1765. Louisiana inhabitants learn that they are to be Spanish subjects over a year after the formal treaty was signed. They will petition the king to rescind the treaty and the delay by Spanish authorities to assume control keeps hope alive in Louisiana that the transfer might not occur. The Spanish, burned by the British capture of Havana and Manila during the Seven Year’s War, are more intent on fortifying Cuba and Mexico due to the British foothold in the Gulf. |
November 1764
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December 1764
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| Jean Pierre Gerald de Vilemont, who had spent several years in Louisiana is invited to Madrid in 1764 by the new Spanish secretary of state, the Marques de Grimaldi. The marques wishes to learn something about the Louisiana colony. | First Acadians arrive in Louisiana. | Merchant Denis Braud operates the first printing press in New Orleans from his home on (812-814) Royal Street. The earliest known printed broadside announces that Louis XV had signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau some 18 months earlier, ceding Louisiana to Spain in the process. Before the press’s appearance the public was notified of official information by the town crier and by the posting of handwritten broadsides. |
François-Marie Prevost Samuel Levi Wells II |
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