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| South America & Caribbean:New viceroyalty of La Plata at Buenaos AiresCattle ranches on the Argentine pampas. | |||||||||||
| North America:England's American colonies declare their independence as loyalists settle in Nova Scotia. Battles begin throughout the colonies. American sharpshooters who target officers with Pennsylvania long rifles can shoot accurately 100 to 300 yards farther than British muskets. The war takes and American turn at the battle of Trenton. First American submarine in New York harbor. A national lottery will help establish the Continental Army, but small pox is a problem with American troops.Thomas Pain writes Common Sense and The Crisis. San Francisco is established from a nearby mission. Philadelpha population over 40,000; New York, 12,000; Boston, 12,000. Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence attacks slavery, but that part is edited out. American now has half a million slaves. | |||||||||||
| Europe: A move to outlaw slavery fails in the British Parliament. Adam Smith wrties about the wealth of nations. Painting by Jean Honore Fragonard, sculpture by Jean Baptiste Pigalle; theatre by Goethe, Von Klinger, Sebastien Chamfort; music by Mozart. France finally has a good wheat harvest. | |||||||||||
January 1776
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Pedro Desneville Segundo - Santiago Livaudais. Sindico Procurador General Guillermo Boisseau Mayordomo de Proprios Luis Boisdore. Jose de Galvez becomes Minister of the Indies in 1776 and the Spanish government tries to shift commerce away from the English. It permits slaves to come from the French West Indies, however, Creole slaves were judged unruly by Louisiana planters because many slaveholders on these islands sold off their ungovernable blacks. New trade indirectly with France and later the United States brings some relief to the Louisiana colony. |
February 1776
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March 1776
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April 1776
April 21, 1776; on the death of Pedro Francisco Olivier the office of Alcalde Mayor Provincial is inherited by his son Carlos Honorato Olivier on September 6, 1776. Carlos will sell the post on May 14, 1779. |
May 1776
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June 1776
June 22 Unzaga asks to be relieved on account of his age, impaired health and failing sight, but the Spanish government paid no heed to his request, which was repeated the following August. Finally he was relieved, but not to retire from public service, as he was appointed captain-general of Caracas. Some years after he left the colony his official acts were investigated by Governor Miro as a Juez de Residencia, or judge of residence, whose report was all that Unzaga’s friends and admirers could desire. |
July 1776
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November 1776
November 29, 1776; the post of Receptor de Penas de Camara of New Orleans is purchased by Cristobal Galpion, who holds his seat on the Cabildo until selling it to Juan Arnoul in April of 1778. Among the November, 1776 orders to Bernardo de Galvez concerning blacks, masters were to treat their slaves humanely and justly. Also persons selling blacks liquor, guns and gunpowder for stolen goods were to be severely punished. Black nocturnal dances and assemblies in New Orleans and the countryside were prohibited; black Catholics were to be married within the church and free female mulattoes who lived dishonestly faced deportation to Haiti |
December 1776
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| In 1776 the Cabildo and governor Unzaga issue a public edict that all measures used to sell goods would be brought to the casa capitular each year to be inspected and marked. If a measure was found to be false all merchandise possessed by the offender was donated to Charity Hospital. This system worked for many years. | Andres Jung completes a contract in the Spring of 1776 to reinforce the levee system facing the city of New Orleans. Begun after the Spring floods two years before, it costs the city 2000 pesos. Jung has been in New Orleans since about 1750. | Spanish and Louisiana colonists aid thirteen colonies on east coast. In 1776 Bernardo de Galvez comes to Louisiana, is made a colonel of the regiment of Louisiana and appointed second in command of the provincial forces. |
The Islenos are transported from their isolated island homeland by Spanish officials. They are placed in remote areas of South Louisiana considered strategic to the province’s defense such as Galveztown, Valenzuela, Barataria and St. Bernard Parish | Spanish town of Galveztown at the junction
of the Amite River and Bayou Manchac is settled by Anglo-Americans seeking
Spanish refuge from American Revolution, and by Canary Islanders (Islenos).
The town is named for Spanish Governor Galvez.
The town will be abandoned by 1810. In 1776 Pierre Dugat received a Spanish land grant for a plantation in Lafayette Parish. Indian artifacts will be found on this site that date from 3000 B.C. to about the eighteenth century. |
Richard Relf Nathaniel Evans |
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