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| North America:John Dickinson continues to write about nonimportation agreements in the colonies which he began at the Stamp Act Congress two years ago. The Mason Dixon line is finished as far west as the Alleghenys. Daniel Boone is in Kentucky in defiance of King George's ban on exploration west of the Alleghenys. New taxes from Parliament bring new nonimportation agreements. | |||||||||||
| Europe:Fiction by Voltaire; theatre by Beaumarchais. Parliament passes the Townsend Revenue Act which places new duties on glass, paint and paper, tea. Joseph Priestley experiments with electricity and nitrogen dioxide, carbonated water. Tristram Shandy by Stern completed; opera by Mozart, Gluck. | |||||||||||
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January 1767
January 1767 Governor Antonio de Ulloa recommends dissolving the French Superior Council citing that the councillors, with the exception of attorney general Lafreniere, have no training in law and were not attending meetings. |
February 1767
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March 1767
March 7, 1767 Bienville dies, mystified by the French crownÖs abandonment of the colony to which he had devoted most of his life. March 22, 1767, the Marques de Grimaldi instructs governor Antonio de Ulloa to abolish the Superior Council as soon as he completes the transfer of authority. He begins to assume some of its functions and by early 1768 he is openly disputing its judicial role. |
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July 1767
July 25 An inventory of government property which is much more detailed than one last year is taken by Ulloa and Hypolite Amelot. |
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| The first Spanish governor Antonio
de Ulloa establishes a fort near Burtville, La. on Bayou Manchac,
the boundary line with British West Florida. Ulloa promised to keep at a fixed rate the 7,600,000 livres of depreciated paper currency and other wise treated the colonists kindly but when he issued his commercial regulation confining the trade of the province to the six Spanish ports of Seville, Aliant, Cartegena, Malaga, Barcelona and Coruna, the indignation of the people begins to break into open rebellion. |
The Commandant of Natchitoches is Coulon de Villiers. |
Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville Louis Casimir Moreau-Lislet |
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