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| South America & Caribbean:Peru breaks away from Columbia. Brazil wins battle against Argentina over Uruguay. | |||||||||||
| North America:Electromagnets, early Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The first black newspaper is the Freeman’s Journal in New York where slavery is abolished on July 4th. James Fenimore Cooper. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Ohm’s Law, waterwheel turbine, screw propeller, contact lenses, first friction match. Record Atlantic crossing from New Orleans to Liverpool in 26 days. Metallic aluminum isolated. Heinrich Heine, Eugene Delacroix, Vistor Hugo, Mendelssohn, Beethoven dies at 56. | |||||||||||
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February 1827
French students celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans. |
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September 1827
James Bowie, wounded as a second in Wells-Maddox duel and wielding the awesome blade of his design, killed Norris Wright September 19 on a sand bar in the river near present day Vidalia. The modified knife later became famous as The Bowie Knife< |
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| L'’Abeille de la Nouvelle Orleans, founded by François Delaup, will be published until 1923 in French. /I>. |
The Consolidated Association of Planters of Louisiana is a property bank designed to aid planters by lending on mortgage security. | Columbia, Louisiana established as the only settlement between Monroe and Black River towns during the Ouachita River Steamboat era (1819-1927). It is noted for its port and steamboat captains. | Beginning in 1827 the French company of the Orleans Theatre left New Orleans to tour the Northeast for several summers under the management of John Davis. Marie Laveau the younger born. | The Grace Episcopal Church in St.
Francisville, La. is built and is one of Louisiana’s oldest Protestant
churches. Investiture came in 1829, with Bishop Polk’s Visitation
in 1839. Shelled during the Civil War, the Church began to rebuild with
final restoration in the 1880s.
Henry Schuyler Thibodeaux |
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