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| South America & Caribbean:Final royalists troops in South America are forced to withdraw.. | |||||||||||
| North America:No majority is achieved in the presidential election, but Andrew Jackson has a plurality. However John Quincy Adams will be declared winner next year. The U. S. Supreme Court makes a ruling that prevents monoplies on inland waterways. The U. S. Army Corp of Engineers is authorized to develop civil projects which will include levees on the Mississippi River, among other projects. They begin by surveying possible canal and road routes. Land grants to private canal companies will increase in the next ten years. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Sequoya develops a Cherokee alphabet. | |||||||||||
| Europe: France’s Louis XVIII dies and is replaced by Charles X. Statement of the second law of thermodynamiics reveals that inventers do not have a firm grasp of theories that drive steam engines. Sir Walter Scott, Delacroix, Beethoven. Lord Byron dies in Greece. | |||||||||||
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January 1824
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February 1824
Theatre d’Orleans is the new site for society Carnival balls. Feliciana Parish is divided into East and West Feliciana in February. |
March 1824
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July 1824
In this year’s gubernatorial election Henry S. Johnson is challenged by Bernard Marigny , who has just returned from France, but spends his campaign attacking Creole moderates. Minor challenges come from the Florida Parishes, but Thomas Butler is tainted by the Burr Conspiracy and Philemon Thomas is too old for electors. Johnson wins a plurality and is elected by the legislature. |
August 1824
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September 1824
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October 1824
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November 1824
Governor Thomas Bolling Robertson resigns to accept an appointment as a federal district judge. His popularity has plummeted and civil turmoil reigns in the streets. As President of the Senate, Henry Schuyler Thibodeaux sits as governor for the next two months. He is called the Father of Terrebonne Parish. |
December 1824
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| Le Courrier de Natchitoches begins publication. Gazette des Attakapas begins publication in St. Martinville. |
The Louisiana State Bank is chartered by the legislature in 1824. The palmetto frond, a common element in the nineteenth century Louisiana landscape when dried and sown, formed the most common type of fan. |
Jean Mouton donates the land for a court house and establishes the town of Vermilionville (Lafayette). | Dr. F.W. Prevost performs the first Cesarean section in Donaldsonville, La. | Giacamo Bellrami explores the (upper?) Mississippi. | 
In 1824 the Ursuline Nuns claim a large square of land in the French Quarter, but the U. S. Government is unsure of the ownership of some sections of the grounds outlined by Decatur, Ursulines, Royal and Barracks. Some of the land was occupied by Army barracks and the Royal Hospital. The city wishes to extend Chartres (Conde) St. through to Esplanade. The US. government land office grants letters patent to the nuns who decide to move to a quieter tract of land further down river. The next year they begin to sell off lots on the lake side of Chartres. William Kenner Julien Poydras |
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