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| North America:Galvez takes Mobile; British take Charleston; American victory in New Jersey; Benedict Arnold plot revealed. Americans victory in South Carolina, but loss at Germantown Pensylvania as Washington moves to Valley Forge for the Winter; Philadelphia still British. Hudson River freezes over aiding British troop movement. Fort established on Cumberland River will become Nashville in 1784. Continental Congress appeals to separate states for supplies to feed its army. American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston. Automated flour mill in Delaware uses water power. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Anti-Catholic riots in London, end of serfdom in Hungary and Bohemia. British farming is modernized while other European agriculture is still medieval. James Watt builds a steam powered flour mill. British Gazette and Sunday Monitor begin publication in London. Paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Singleton Copley; music by Mozart. | |||||||||||
January 1780
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Pedro Piernas Segundo - Pedro Deverges. Sindico Procurador General Manuel Andres de Armesto Mayordomo de Proprios Luis Boisdore. Juan Bautiste Garic is succeeded as Cabildo escribano by Leonardo Mazange. January 1780 Governor Galvez moves to seize Fort Charlotte (Mobile) from the British, by March 1780 he succeeds. |
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August 1780
August 24, 1780 brings a repeat of last August’s hurricane, Most of the city’s buildings are damaged and ships are sunk on the river. Ten people die in New Orleans and more die in the surrounding area. The flour and tobacco stores are destroyed and the city’s two hospitals are heavily damaged as well as most of the barracks. Intendant Navarro dips into the Royal treasury to help the survivors. |
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October 1780
In October 1780 another hurricane scatters a fleet from Cuba, delaying an invasion of heavily fortified Pensacola by Galvez. Some of the battered ships made their way to New Orleans. The soldiers and sailors await another try next Spring and fill local taverns and houses of ill repute. The hurricanes of 1779 and 1780 have reduced Charity Hospital to a kitchen and a storehouse, with room for only six beds. |
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December 1780
December 9, 1780 Martin Navarro becomes Spanish intendant of Louisiana. He has been interim intendant since 1779 and will serve until May 10, 1788. The functions of the office have been exercised by Governors Unzaga and Galvez as well as Juan Jose de Loyola, Esteban Gayer and Navarro since 1766. The office controls the Royal treasury of the colony but land grants, often shared by the intendant in other Spanish colonies, remains in the hands of the governor until October 1798. |
| From 1780 to early 1782 Bernardo Galvez will be frequently absent and Lt. Colonel Pedro Piernas and Martin Navarro will exercise the offices of acting military and civil governors respectively. | Paper money first appears in 1780 during the war with Great Britain. It will depreciate 70 percent in value by 1790. | François Rouquier, early Natchitoches Indian trader and farmer builds a house in Natchitoches Parish. | Col. Richard M. Johnson (1780-1850) served as the ninth Vice President of the United States under Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841 and is believed to be the only Vice President to ever reside in New Orleans. | A series of hurricanes and storms this year affects the colony. |
John Fitz Miller |
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