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1775 |
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| North America:Revolution begins in British North America at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. A seige of Boston begins. American victories at Ft. Ticonderoga and Crown Point, failure to take Quebec. John Hancock is president of the Second Continental Congress, George Washington is commander-in-chief of the Continental army; a navy is established at the congress. The first American abolition society in Pennsylvania, Thomas Paine writes against discrimination of women. Daniel Boone blazes a Wilderness Road that will be followed by over 100,000 in the next 15 years. In spite of Englans attempts to prevent iron manufacturing in the colonies there are more forges in the American colonies than in England. Yankee Doodle becomes popular with American troops. |
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| Europe: Britain hires 30,000 German mercenaries to fight their war in North America. Women and children working in bondage in coal and salt mines are freed by King George III. English businesses fill the pinch of the American boycott and ask Parliament to repeal the intolerable taxes. Painting by Jean Chardin, Joshua Reynolds; theatre by Beaumarchais; music by Mozart. Flush toilet invented in England. Prussians drinking as much coffee as beer. Captain Cook returns from the Pacific Ocean, having concoured scurvy alnong the way with sauerkraut. | |||||||||||
January 1775
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Guy (Guido) Dufossat Segundo - Santiago de La Chaise. Sindico Procurador General Santiago Livaudais Mayordomo de Proprios Juan Durel. |
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May 1775
May 1775 the Cabildo appoints regidores Forstall and Reggio to be responsible for slave fund collections. The fund still has to borrow occasionally from municipal funds. |
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September 1775
September 17 Unzaga reports that the stockade around New Orleans is under continuous repair. |
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December 1775
In December 1775 the Cabildo allows double the amount of taverns (24) to operate within the city. The Cabildo also votes to give two men Pedro Moris (Peter Morris) and Raymond Escate (Scott) a monopoly on the operation of taverns, cabarets, restaurants and boarding houses. The contract has them pay 840 pesos per year plus 140 pesos for Charity Hospital and 25 pesos for the lighting of the city to celebrate the birth of a royal infant, submit a list of bartenders and cabaret operators, post a 6,600 peso bond. |
| William Charles Cole Claiborne is born in Virginia. At 16 he will be employed as a clerk in the House of Representatives and will study law on the side. He becomes a lawyer at 20 and, at 22, represents Tennessee in Congress, where he made friends with Thomas Jefferson. |
William C. C. Claiborne |
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