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| North America:U. S. troops used by President Jackson to calm riots alnong the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Department of Indian Affairs created. Riots in New York are protest against abolitionists by unskilled workers who fear replacement by blacks. Riots sprout in Philadelphia. John Jacob Astor sells off his fur interests and as the richest man in America, will now invest in New York Real Estate. The Delaware and Raritan Canal across New Jersey; Portage Railroad between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Weekly steamboat between Buffalo, N.Y. and Forth Darborn (Chicago). Cornelius Vanderbuilt building fortune in steamboat trade. Jacob Perkins experiments with gas refrigeration. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Civil War in Spain. Spanish Inquisition is abolished. Braille develops reading system for the blind. Fiction by Honore de Balzac, the Last Days of pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, painting by Delacroix. A large fire in London forces large scale reconstruction of official buildings. Canned sardines. | |||||||||||
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August 1834
August 20 Francis T. Nicholls (1834-1912)- Confederate General, Governor and Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court is born in Donaldsonville, La. |
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October 1834
October 19, 1834 In Paris the Pontalba name has been sullied by the separation of the young Baron Joseph Xavier Celestine and his wife, Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba. Michaela had asked Celestin to separate from his family years ago. The old Baron, Joseph Delfau de Pontalba took it especially hard, as his daughter-in-law retained custody of her three children and control of her large fortune. It had been apparent soon after they arrived in France that the young baron preferred the country life and the baroness was entranced by the city. She had even scandalized the family at one point by seeking a divorce, traveling around America with the French Consul in New Orleans, J.N. François Guillemin. In 1834 Micaela. 39, travels to Mont l’Eveque, the family’s country estate seeking a truce. The old baron appears in her room with two pistols and orders her to commend her soul to God. His pistols inflict four wounds in her chest, while severing one finger in her left had and crushing another. She flings herself against the door, wrenching it open with bleeding hands and flees to safety before falling unconscious. She survives but the old baron retires to his locked study and shoots himself to death. She consoles herself by returning to Paris and buying a 400 room mansion that Louis XIV had built for the Duke du Maine. And spends the next fifteen years regaining her freedom and control of her life. |
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| Napoleon’s death mask is presented to the city by Dr. Francesco Antommarchi, who was Napoleon’s physician on the island of St. Helena. Napoleon Avenue is laid out as the main street of Faubourg Bouligny. The five cities on either side of Napoleon are named after sites of his victories. Berlin Street was changed to Gen. Pershing during the first world war. | Medical College of Louisiana founded. It will become the University of Louisiana in 1847 and later Tulane University. The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul arrive and take over nursing duties, housekeeping and maintenance at the new Charity Hospital built two years ago. | James Caldwell builds city's first gasworks. Jackson Barracks erected just down river from New Orleans on the Parish line. |
The First Presbyterian Church is built facing Lafayette Square. |
Francis T. Nicholls |
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