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| North America:Mississippi becomes the 20th state. Seminole War begins on the Georgia-Florida border. John Jacob Astor has a monopoly on fur production in the Mississippi Valley. The Cumberland road stretches from fromthe Potomaic near Washington to Wheeling, Virginia. Harvard Law School. University of Michigan | |||||||||||
| Europe: Lord Byron, Keats, Shelley, Walter Scott. | |||||||||||
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April 15 Barthelemew Lafon is in Campeche (Galveston Island, Texas) aboard his schooner Carmelita to help Jean Lafitte build the colony . |
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| William C. C. Claiborne dies in New Orleans after serving as Louisiana’s first territorial and State Governor and, for a short time, as a U. S. Senator. He is buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in spite of being a Protestant. | 
In 1817 the St. Philip Theatre is the site of the first theatrical performance in English in Louisiana. |
When Poste du Rapides was established
in Pineville
the Catholic Mission of St. Louis des Apalachees was founded. Mass
was said in private homes in the new town of Alexandria. A chapel built in 1817 was the first church of any denomination in the city. St. Francis Xavier Church was built in 1834 on Front Street. Rev. Leonard Menard envisioned a larger place of worship. The cornerstone of the present building was laid on December 3, 1895, the feast of St. Francis Xavier. A few weeks later the original church burned. The first Mass was celebrated in this Gothic Revival structure November 27, 1899. Sand for mortar was dug from the Red River bed and floors of native pine were laid. In 1907 the belfry was added; the clock installed the next year. The Rectory, first built in 1896, was extensively renovated in 1930. St. Francis Xavier Academy, erected in 1897, was remodeled and enlarged in 1907. Bishop Cornelius Van de Ven petitioned Rome to transfer the See city from Natchitoches to centrally located Alexandria. Thus, on August 6, 1910, St. Francis Xavier Church became the Cathedral. These 3 buildings are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Cathedral Complex |
Victor Sejour (1817-1874) playwright, poet of Les Cenelles, sent by his father in 1836 to France to complete his education. He stays in France and becomes a huge success. | Mount Hope, built this year in Baton
Rouge is now a bed and breakfast retreat in a fully restored early
nineteenth century farmhouse located on Highland Road.
William C. C. Claiborne |
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