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| North America: The Northwest Ordinance adopted by Congress will be mentioned in the legislation forming Louisiana, but its anti-slavery clause will be ignored. The United States writes a constitution. The Federalist Papers appear to help explain the Constitution. It is rapidly ratified by legislators in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. South Carolina finally cedes its western lands and the Ohio Company buys land on the River from the new Federal government. Steamboats appear on the Delaware and Potomic Rivers. Automated flour mill. A college founded at Fort Pitt will become the University of Pittsburgh. Theater by Royall Tyler in New York. The Constitution counts slaves as three-fifths of a free man for purposes of settling taxation and representation questions at the convention. Freed blacks organize the Free African Society in Philadelphia. Daniel Shays will be pardoned for his economic rebellion last year. |
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| Europe: French grain markets are completely opened, but a poor harvest causes a French crises A balloon inflated with hydrogen by physicist Jacques Charles rises over Paris. Painting by Jacques Louis David, Joshua Reynolds; theatre by von Schiller; opera by Mozart.Thomas Payne brings his revolutionary ideas to Europe. England's prison population, once sent to the North American colonies are now diverted to Australia. Slavery in English colonies is under fire in London. First English cricket match. Captain Bligh, who sailed with Cook, sails to the Pacific to pick up breadfruit bound for the Caribbean. | |||||||||||
January 1787
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Pedro Chabert Segundo - Carlos de Reggio. Sindico Procurador General Francisco Jose Dorville Mayordomo de Proprios Pedro Bertonier. Fernando Rodriguez is succeeded as Cabildo escribano by Pedro Pedesclaux. He serves until the end of the Spanish era. |
February 1787
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March 1787
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April 1787
April 1, 1787 Captain Jose Lopez de la Peña is appointed political and military commandant at Natchitoches by Estaban Rodriguez Miro. |
May 1787
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June 1787
Jose de Galvez, uncle of Bernardo Galvez dies in June of 1787 and his responsibilities as Minister of the Indies is divided between two cabinet ministries, the Minister of the Marine and the Indies and the Minister of Justice and Patronage. The change in administration has a negative effect on Louisiana’s posterity. |
July 1787
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August 1787
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September 1787
September 5 1787, a royal order gives Nicholas Forstall the right to name a teniente to his seat on the municipal council. Forstall will reclaim his seat from Carlos de La Chaise on September 4, 1795 when he leaves the post as commandant at Opelousas. |
October 1787
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November 1787
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December 1787
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| To assure cleaner streets in 1787 the Cabildo organizes a street cleaning brigade consisting of six convicts directed by an army sargeant, but growth of the city in the next decade makes this system inadequate. | In 1787 the Cabildo asks governor Estaban Rodriguez Miro to release confiscated American flour to avert a shortage. Next year after the fire Miro will send ships to Philadelphia to replace flour destroyed in the conflagration. | The Greek Revival plantation house known as Destrehan Plantation is the oldest plantation house remaining in the lower Mississippi Valley. It was built by Charles Pacquet, a free man of color, for M. Robin deLogny whose daughter later married into the Destrehan family. It is finished in 1790 and twelve years later the garçonniéres are added by Jean Noel Destrehan de Beaupre. In 1972 the River Road Historical Society acquired the title and began restoration. It is open for tours by guides in ante-bellum gowns. |
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