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| South America & Caribbean:Chile. Paraguay, Uraguay, New Granada, New Spain and Venezuela declare independence from Spain. | |||||||||||
| North America:General Harrison defeats the Shawnee at Tippecanoe. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Britain's George III is declared insane. Britain issues paper currency. Napoleon awards a medal for sugar beet cultivation that frees France from the high price of sugar on the continent. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin; Beethoven. | |||||||||||
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January 1811
January 10 About 500 slaves participated and at least 100 enslaved black people are killed in a failed rebellion in St. John the Baptist Parish. The town of LaPlace nearby was named after plantation owner Bazile LaPlace. |
February 1811
On February 18,1811 President James Madison signs into law legislation authorizing the territorial governor of Louisiana, William C. C. Claiborne, to call for the election of a convention to form the new state. |
March 1811
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April 1811
April 17 A territorial legislative act divides the county of Attakapas into two parishes: St Martin and St. Mary. |
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September 1811
Nicholas Roosevelt, Teddy’s great-grand uncle, pilots his steamboat S. S. New Orleans into its namesake city after a 14 day trip from Pittsburgh. |
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November 1811
November 4, 1811; Members of the Constitutional Convention called on this date:. It is held in the Tremoulet House located in New Orleans on the corner of St. Peter and Levee Streets. 43 delegates gather in New Orleans from November 1811 to January 1812 to compose a constitution with Julien Poydras as the president of the convention. President - Julien Poydras, Secretary of Convention - Eligius Fromentin; County of Orleans - J. D. Degoutin Bellechasse, J. Blanque, T. J. LeBreton D'Orgenois, Mgre. Guichard, A HREF="hendersons-bio.htm" onMouseOver="parent.self.status=' Chronology of the life of Stephen Henderson'; return true">Stephen Henderson, Denis Delaronde, F. Livaudais. Bernard Marigny, Thomas Urquhart, Jacques Philippe Villere, John Watkins, Samuel Winter; German Coast (St. John the Baptist and St. Charles parishes) - James Brown, Jean Noel Destrehan, Alexandre LaBranche; County of Acadia - Michel Cantrelle, J. M. Reynaud, Genezi Rousin; County of Iberville - Amant Hebert. William Wikoff, Jr. ; County of Lafourche - William Goforth, Bela Hubbard, Jr., Pierre Beauchet St, Martin, Henry Schuyler Thibodeaux; County of Pointe Coupee - S. Hiriat; County of Rapides - R. Hall, Samuel Levi Wells, Thos. F. Olivier; County of Natchitoches - P. Bossier, J. Prud’homme; County of Concordia - James B. Dunlap, David B. Morgan; County of Ouachita - Henry Bry; County of Opelousas - Allan B. Magruder, D. j. Sutton, John Thompson; County of Attakapas (Iberia Parish, St. Mary Parish, St. Martin Parish Parish - Louis de Blanc, Henry S. Johnson, W. C. Maquille, Chas. Olivier, Alexander Porter. |
December 1811
Tremors from the New Madrid earthquake begin December 16 and last for several months |
| Benjamin H. Latrobe gets the contract to construct a waterworks on the levee between Iberville and Bienville, across Old Levee from the new Custom House he designed. But Congress denies the city this land so it is built on the batture corner of Old Levee and Ursulines. |
James Bradford establishes the Time Piece at St. Francisville, the first newspaper in the Florida parishes which had only recently become a part of the territory of Orleans. 1811 Madisonville originally called Cokie (from Coquille) because of the abundance of shells in the area is renamed for President James Madison. It is the site of a navy yard in early 1800s. According to legend Gen. Andrew Jackson, enroute to New Orleans in Nov. 1814 stopped here at the home of Gen. David B. Morgan. |
Young Baron Joseph Xavier Celestin (Tin-Tin) Delfau de Pontalba is married to his cousin Micaela Leonarda Antonia Almonester y Roxas the daughter of the Spanish Alférez Real (Royal Standard Bearer) Don Andres Almonester y Roxas. The match had been made between the young baron who had served in the French Army and his New Orleans cousin when she was only 15. The young couple sails to Paris after the wedding accompanied by their mothers. Bernard Marigny gives away the bride at the wedding of Micaela Almonester to the son of Bernard’s godfather Joseph Xavier Delfau de Pontalba. Bernard is representing Marshal Ney a distinguished friend of the Pontalbas and one of Napoleon’s advisors. |
Revolutionary War hero Wade Hampton buys the Houmas Indian land grant sold to Conway and Latil in 1774. Houmas House Plantation is a two and a half story Greek Revival mansion built on the land by Col. John Preston Smith of South Carolina in 1840. It is acquired by John Burnside in 1857 and he will add the hexagonal garçonniéres (bachelor’s quarters) on either side. Restored by Dr. George Crozat in 1940.
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