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| South America & Caribbean:Simon Bolivar becomes a dictator of Venezuela after getting a commission to retake Caracas. Mexico declares its independence from Spain and names José Maria Morales its president. | |||||||||||
| North America: In November Andrew Jackson
is in Alabama and Florida in response to the Creek Massacre at Fort Mims
in August. He will stay in the area for another year as he frustrates
the British attempt to reconquer the Gulf Coast and vanquishes the Creek
nation. The Spanish, who have held the area since Galvez
reclaimed it in 1781,
have their own troubles in Europe and can only complain diplomatically. American naval and army victories on Lake Erie. Dolly Madison serves ice cream. |
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| Europe:Wellington advances through Spain. After the French failure in Russia, German states begin to organize armies of liberation from Napoleon’s France. The emperor wins battles but with a great loss of lives. As more conquered peoples turn on him Napoleon begins to lose ground. Typhus takes as many French soldiers as the battleground. Luddite trials in England. Power loom invented. Jane Austin writes Pride and Prejudice. .Lord Byron, Shelley, Rossini, Schubert, Beethoven. The waltz is popular |
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Andrew Jackson (46), Sam Houston (19) and Davy Crocket (27) are in Alabama and Florida attacking Creek settlements. |
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| 1813 Duncan Farrar Kenner, (1813-1887) is born
; statesman, lawyer, planter and Confederate minister to France and England
in 1864. His home is Ashland near Darrow, Ascension
Parish. also known today as Belle Helene.
Red River Planter begins publication in Alexandria. |
A meat market structure, more permanent then previous market buildings in New Orleans is built near the levee. Other buildings follow with slate roofs and flagstone paving. A Coin known as an escalius (12 1/2 cents) bought a pound of Tensas beef. Also sold were calas (hot rice cakes). pain patate (a cold sweet potato pie), Choctaw root, Laurel, bay, file for gumbo, wild turnips for curing consumption, plantain for perfume, blowguns from wild cane, stationary, newspapers, lottery tickets. Theatre d’ Orleans (the French Opera House) is built. It houses the first permanent opera company in the country. |
Margaret Gaffney Haughery (1813-1882) will care for the abandoned, orphaned and homeless youth for nearly 50 years. A statue of her, the first in the United States to honor a woman, can be found at the triangular intersection of Camp and Prytania Streets | Town of Wharton founded on land donated by John
Wharton Collins. He named the town for his grandfather, John Wharton.
The legislature granted a charter March 11, 1816, and changed its name
to Covington,
in honor of General Leonard A. Covington, war hero of 1812.
John Mowry |
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