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| North America:The Governor of Virginia dissolves the legislature after a day of peaceful protest over the closure of Boston harbor. Other ports follow up with their own tea parties. It meets secretly and plans annual meetings between representatives of the thirteen colonies. the first Continantal Congress meets later in the year to address grievences and agree not to trade with England or its colonies. British Parliament passes a new Quartering Act requiring colonists to house troops where barracks don't exist. Josiah Quincy in Boston, Thomas Jefferson in Williamsburg and James Wilson in Philadelphia publish pamplets about the progress of British acts and colonial reactions. British parliament expands the Province of Quebec to include land south to the Ohio River and west to the Mississippi River, effectively precluding the thirteen colonies from settlement in this area. A treaty between western pioneers and Shawnee Indians allows hunting and transportation rights in Kentucky. Fort Harrod is the first English settlement in Kentucky. Further Importation of slaves banned in Connecticut and Rhode Island, as well as agreed to at the Continental Congress. Shakers established in New York. Painting by john Singleton Copley |
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| Europe:Smallpox kills Louis XVand the throne is assumed by Louis XVI, who reigns with Marie Antoinette, his Austrian wife. Famine continues in France as riots and looting of flour mills alert the king. British Parliament passes a new acts in reaction to the Boston Tea Party last year. Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen. Benjamin Franklin publishes articles in the London Public Advertiser about the progress of British acts and colonial reactions. Painting by Frenchmen Jacques Louis David; poetry and theatre by Goethe | |||||||||||
January 1774
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Nicolas Forstall Segundo - Pedro Chabert. Sindico Procurador General Pedro Deverges Mayordomo de Proprios Juan Durel. |
February 1774
February 25 The post of Receptor de Penas de Camara and Cabildo seat vacated by Denis Braud is purchased at auction by Daniel Fagot de la Garciniere, who holds his seat on the Cabildo until selling it to Cristobal Galpion in November of 1776. |
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May 1774
Spring floods in 1774 are the first threat to the levee system during the Spanish era. The levees contained low spots and burrowing crawfish weakened others |
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| In 1774 the Cabildo finds enough money in its treasury to decorate its chambers with portraits of Carlos III and the prince of Asturias, the heir to the Spanish throne. It also buys a uniform for the town crier, Nicolas Jourdain. | During 1774 and 1775 three flour shortages occur in New Orleans. Twice the Cabildo resolves the problem by purchasing flour from Anglo-American ships without royal permission and against Spanish mercantile laws. | Land on a grant to Houmas Indians is sold to Conway and Latil in 1774. It will be sold to Revolutionary War hero Wade Hampton in 1811. The Houmas House plantation house is a Greek Revival mansion built by John Smith Preston in 1840. Restored by Dr. George Crozat in 1940. | Magnolia Lane Plantation house is a West Indian style cottage on the West Bank River Road at Nine Mile Point near Westwego, La. The plantation produced the first orange trees and strawberries in Louisiana. |
Louis XV William Kenner |
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