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| South America & Caribbean:Previous Hispanola: 1765 Mulattoes are prohibited from employment as court clerks, bailiffs and notaries on Saint Domingue in 1765.Next | |||||||||||
| North America:Parliament requires colonists to house soldiers with the Quartering Act and The Stamp Act requires revenue stamps on various documents and publications. These attempts to shift the tax burden to colonies resuts in Sons of Liberty clubs and the Stamp act Congress in New York that resolves to resist importation of taxed goods. Prominent names in American shipping are Cabot, Butler, Russell and Lewis. The College and Academy of Philadelphia is the first American medical school. Philadelphia population at 25,000 is second only to London in the British Empire, New York half that size. | |||||||||||
| Europe: A Frenchman devises a three-wheeled, steam driven tractor to pull guns, but is must stop every 100 feet to make steam. James Watt invents first efficient steam engine. First Savings bank is in Germany. A canal links the Rhone and Loire Rivers in France. Painting by Jean Honore Fragonard, Francois Boucher and Jean Baptiste Greuze; fiction by Walpole; Mother Goose's Melodies. First true restaurant in Paris. | |||||||||||
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February 1765
Last October Jean Jacques Blaise D’Abbadie announced the King's instructions for the transfer of the colony to Spain which is to occur on February 4, 1765. February 4, 1765 the respected scientist Antonio de Ulloa is in Havana. In January 1764 he had been relieved as superintendent of the Huancavlica mercury mine in Peru. In June 1764 he learns that he is to be the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. Also in February the last appointed governor and commissary Jean Jacques Blaise D’Abbadie dies and is succeeded by Charles Philippe Aubry, the senior ranking military officer. |
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| Louis Pierre Arceneaux, prototype of Longfellow’s Gabriel, establishes his ranch near Carencro, La. It is the end of a long Acadian odyssey from Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, via St. James and the Atchafalaya swamps, to the Attakapas prairies. | Charles Barre buys 8800 arpents from Jacque Guillaume Courtableau, 1st Commandant, Opelousas Post where Bayou Courtableau gives birth to Bayou Teche in St. Landry Parish. It will be a busy port during steamboat days. | In 1765 Antonio de Ulloa is appointed governor of Louisiana, but remained at Havana until the following Spring, | A plan of New Orleans by British Lt. Philip Pittman shows the fortifications, moat and palisade at the levee, but remarks that they are useless as military fortifications. Still unnamed are Iberville, Rampart and Barracks but additional blocks are shown inside the fortification line. Chartres is shown open between Iberville and Bienville near the Governor's house. A large house has been built for M. Latil outside the city on the lake end of Ursulines. Pittman was 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 news of the cession to Spain. Several versions of this map are published. |
Jean-Jacques Blaise d’Abbadie Jean Baptiste Destrehan |
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