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| Previous Hispanola: France compels Spain to withdraw from the anti-France coalition and Spain cedes the eastern portion of the island of Hispanola making the entire island French territory. But the politics on the French portion are no clearer so this event is basically ignored. In the North Province there is a small mulatto force and a French white force in Port de Paix, but Toussaint holds most of the North to the port of Gonaives. In the West Province (which despite its name is directly south of the North Province and east of the South Province) British forces and white and mulatto planter allies successfully continue the plantation system. The South Province which is the western tip of the country’s southern peninsula is held by Andre Rigaud and his mulatto coffee planters. Next South America & Caribbean:Spain cedes the colony of Santo Domingo, the Spanish eastern half of Hispanola, to France in the 1795 Treaty of Basel. The Spanish crown moves its Audiencia of Santo Domingo to Puerto Principe. |
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| North America:James Pinckney signs the Treaty of San Lorenzo which allows free navigation of Mississippi River by Americans and entrepot in New Orleans; Grain crops still bring premium prices in Europe. | |||||||||||
| Europe:French defeat Dutch and British seize Dutch colonies; German states end war with France in Treaty of Basel; Bread riots in Paris; Napoleon gains creole mistress Josephine and clears Paris mob; Goya; Haydn; Beethoven; Goethe. Events in Europe this year influencing Louisiana. | |||||||||||
January 1795
 Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer - Ignacio de Lovio Segundo -Joseph Xavier de Pontalba. Sindico Procurador General Miguel Fortier Mayordomo de Proprios Juan de Castañedo. Francisco Rendøon serves as Intendant from 1794 until 1796. |
February 1795
February 20 A proposal by Pontalba, Fortier, Bore and Montreuil. They own the property bounded by Chartres, Toulouse, Levee and St. Louis. The area facing the river was leveled during the 1964 fire and they wish to cut a street through the block for commercial buildings. The action is never taken. |
March 1795
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April 1795
April, 1795; Sindico Procurador General Miguel Fortier urges the council to assemble an investigation of the slave conspiracy in Pointe Coupee. Alferez Real Almonester opposes the measures saying the commandant in Pointe Coupee can run his own investigation. Governor Carondelet sees the Cabildo plans as a challenge to his and royal authority. |
May 1795
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June 1795
June 1, 1795; Governor Carondelet sends the Cabildo a copy of the letter he has sent to post commandants that included rules for masters in treatment of their slaves. In June he also tries again to exact funds from all slave owners to indemnify owners of slaves executed and imprisoned after the Pointe Coupee slave conspiracy. The plan was an utter failure. June 20, 1795; the Cabildo decides it would be harmful to permit anything other than bozales (unassimilated African Slaves) to enter the colony. and asks the governor to ban slave importation as long as war with France existed. Governor Carondelet gives individuals who had recently acquired a license to import bozales six months to use them. Although it has been an independent diocese since some time in 1793, Louisiana gets its first Bishop when Luis Peñalver y Cardenas arrives in a city that he believes needs more religion. He is shocked by the laxity of spiritual obligations in the colony and quickly plans a public procession for Corpus Christi, held the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday in June. He will be named archbishop of Guatemala in 1801 and will leave the Louisiana office vacant. |
July 1795
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August 1795
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September 1795
September 4, 1795 Nicolas Forstall who purchased the office of Regidor Sencillo in 1772 resumes the post which has been filled temporarily by Carlos de La Chaise since March 12, 1790. |
October 1795
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December 1795
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In 1795 the Cabildo begins issuing new regulations about cutting streets through private property. Joseph Xavier de Pontalba, Miguel Fortier, Esteban Bore and Roberto Montreult (or Montreuill) apply for permission. As part of their new building regulations after the 1794 fire the Cabildo dictates that only brick houses with flat roofs may be built along the new roadway. The short building code states that all two-story houses or duplexes are to be constructed of brick or adobe and plastered over with cement at least one inch thick. The roofs had to be either tile or brick. Existing wooden houses were to be stuccoed with cement and were not to extend into the lot more than thirty feet. Only houses whose lot frontage measured less than thirty feet across could be built with the rear or sides facing the street. The new regulations appear not to have been enforced. An arsonist starts three fires in 1795, but eludes capture. |
Carondelet
updates his use of syndics in 1795, because of need to keep levees,
roads and bridges in good repair, the entry of numerous immigrants,
Jacobin unrest, and the Pointe Coupee slave conspiracy. Post commandants
were to nominate responsible, literate persons, usually planters, subject
to his confirmation.
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City of St.
Martinsville is developed in St.
Martin Parish between 1795 and 1900 through an unusual semi-feudal
arrangement where town property holders paid an "annual and perpetual"
rent to the congregation of St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church.
Catholic mission church built at Las Cabezas on Bayou Scie, Sabine Parish about 1795. Succeeded by Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadeloupe). In 1858 referred to as St. Michael (San Miguel). Zwolle’s St. Joseph’s succeeds these. A new Cabildo building is built by Don Andres Almonester y Roxas. The design incorporated portions of an earlier structure, the Corps de Garde (1751) barracks and HQ for the military police of Colonial New Orleans. |
The thirty-first parallel line is established by the Pinckney Treaty, Oct. 27, 1795, as the dividing line between the southern United States and Spanish West Florida. It recognized a U.S. claim dating back to American Revolution, 1783. In 1812 it becomes the northern boundary of the eastern part of the state. Florida Parishes. Carondelet Canal finished. In the wake of the 1794 fire Vincent Rillieux builds several fine homes on Royal Street, including the one at 417 Royal which serves as the Banque de Louisiane from 1805 to 1818 and later is the house of Paul Morphy, international chess champion. Vincent Rillieux will be father-in-law of architect James Freret and the great grandfather of Edgar Degas. Coushatta Indian tribe migrates to Louisiana from Alabama. The name means "White Reedbrake" and Coushatta, town in Red River Parish is named for them. They are noted for their basket handicraft. Don Juan Filhiol, commandant of the Spanish Fort Miro builds a log cabin at what is now the corner of South Second and Coleman Streets in West Monroe, Ouachita Parish. This was one of the first buildings in what is now West Monroe. Governor Carondelet orders plays to begin at 5:30 pm and posts specific rules of behavior for both audience and actors at the theater, such as no throwing oranges or repeating lines. In legend a family wedding party rode down the alley canopied by giant spider webs dusted with gold and silver. c. 1795-99. The land is a Spanish grant to Jacques Fontenette Charles Durand, Pre-Civil War sugar planter who is credited with planting the Oak and Pine alley. |
Antonio De Ulloa Andre Bienvenu Roman Edward Douglas White |
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