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| North America:Economic depression in U. S. foments Shay's Rebellion. The paper money is worthless and Rhode Island farmers destroy their crops when merchants refuse to accept their currency. a canal connecting the Delaware River to the Chesapeake is begun. Syracuse, New York is a trading post. First U. S. Golf Club in South Carolina. A nail making machine invented, but most houses still pegged together. | |||||||||||
| Europe: France signs a commercial treaty with Great Britain, tariffs fall, but France has received the short end of the stick as its manufacturers begin to fail. France has a diamond robbery intrigue. A breech-loading musket in London. Poetry by Robert Burns; painting by Joshua Reynolds, Johann Zoffany; music by Mozart. Mont Blanc conquered. First threshing machine. | |||||||||||
January 1786
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Joseph de Orue Segundo - Guy (Guido) Dufossat. Sindico Procurador General Carlos de Reggio Mayordomo de Proprios Francisco Blanche. |
February 1786
Don Pedro Rougeau (Rousseau) becomes commandant at Natchitoches. |
March 1786
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June 1786
June 2 Governor Miro issues his Bando de Buen Gobierno ordering that no work be done on the Sabbath of holy festival days except in cases of urgent necessity, that shops should be closed during divine services, no negro dances on public squares on evenings while church was in session, blacks prohibited from holding meetings after night fall. No large assemblies to take place without knowledge of the government. No citizens to leave the city without a passport; gambling, dueling and carrying of weapons were placed under ban; the inhabitants were not to purchase anything from soldiers, Indians, convicts or slaves. Verbal sales and transfers of slaves forbidden, better fire protection and drainage recommended; no hogs allowed to run at large; and number of dogs to be kept by families regulated. He prohibits slave importation from the Caribbean. |
July 1786
July 28, 1786; Joseph Ducros who has held the office since December 1, 1769 dies and passes the post to his son who becomes a regidore on November 17, 1786. He holds the post until the transfer of the territory to the United States in 1803. |
August 1786
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September 1786
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October 1786 Charity Hospital reconstruction is completed in October of 1786 by Almonester. The large H shaped structure was built behind the city for $114,000 pesos. He provides the facility with an income from his rental property. The fires of 1788 and 1794 missed it, but it finally burned down in 1809. |
November 1786
November 30 Former Governor Bernardo de Galvez resigns October 15, 1786 and dies about a month later at Tacubaza, aged 38. |
December 1786
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| In 1786 the Cabildo tightens the administration of the public meat market. It provides a small enclosure for one of its porters and includes duties to open and close the market, watch over it during hours of operation, guard it at night and keep it clean, as well as make minor repairs. | In 1786 Bernardo Galvez is now Viceroy of New Spain but still has authority over Louisiana. He orders surplus money from market rents to be used for an endowment for the city s leper hospital. Regidore Luis Toutant Beauregard maintains the fund until his death. In 1796 Mayordomo Castañedo assumes control. |
Bernardo de Galvez Joseph Marshall Walker |
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