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| South America & Caribbean:Paraguay's new dictator will rule until 1862. Peru's President tries to invade Bolivia, but is killed. plunging Peru into chaos and civil war for four years. | |||||||||||
| North America:William Henry Harrison dies one month after taking office as president and is succeeded by John Tyler. Amistad slaves are freed by U. S. Court. Race riots in Cincinnati over fugitive slaves. Emmigration to Oregan through hostile Indian territory begins. Congress allows settlers in Wisconsin territory ti purchase 160 acres at minimum $1.25 per acre if they build a house and cultivate land. Dallas in the Texas Republic has its beginnings. John Sutter , who has become a Mexican citizen buys Ft. Ross from Russians to colonize California. Beginnings of Fordham University; Cincinnati Enquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Horace Greeley founds New York Tribune. First advertising agency in Philadelphia sells newspaper ads to out of town advertisers. Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper; Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New York 313,000 people 17 million in U. S. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Britain adds Hong Kong and New Zealand as colonies. Spain protests freeing of slaves from Amistad. Arc Lamps for street lighting demonstrated in Paris. First successful breech loading rifle in Prussia will be adopted by that army in 1848. Standard screws in England. Hypnosis in Scotland. Punch, humor magazine in London; Charles Dickens; painting by Delacroix. Deutschland Uber Alles will become German anthem in 1922. Irish population at 10 million will decrease by 2.3 million in this decade through famine and immigration; London 2.2 million, Paris almost 1 million, Vienna 350,000, Berlin 300,000, | |||||||||||
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Eleven balls held on a single night this Carnival season. Hundreds of revelers are reported masking as Bedouins at a parade in New Orleans. |
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November 27 Enslaved black people revolt on the vessel Creole enroute from Hampton, Va. to New Orleans. The rebels overpower the crew, and sail to the Bahamas where they are granted asylum. More about the Creole incident. |
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| New Orleans Public Schools organized. | Born in France in 1841, D. A. Chaffraix will build and operate the first sugar refinery in New Orleans with Messrs. Barclay and Agar. Chaffraix’s nephew, Pierre A. Lelong (1852-1913) joined the business which eventually became the leading sugar export company in the South. Lelong served as a charter member of the board of commissioners of City Park. The board organized in 1895, was responsible for securing the Isaac Delgado donation for building the Delgado Museum, renamed the New Orleans Museum of Art. Samuel H. Livaudais (1880-1959) entered the company as a bookkeeper in 1910 becoming president sometime after Lelong s death in 1913. It became S. H. Livaudais and Sons, sugar brokers. S. H. Livaudais was a member of the first board of directors of the New Orleans Airport Commission established in 1925. |
In 1841 the State Supreme court decides litigation on the canal, basin and park in Faubourg St. Mary between Municipality #2 and the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Co. A canal strip 40 feet wide in the center of Poydras street and a basin of 180 feet go to the railroad and a public ground called Place Gravier goes to the city. | In 1841 Leonidas
Polk becomes the first Episcopal bishop of Louisiana First Episcopal services at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Clinton are conducted by Rev. William B. Lacey, president of College of Louisiana at Jackson. The parish is organized in 1852. Rev. Frederick Dean was first resident priest. Present church dates from 1871. |
A Greek Revival plantation is built by wealthy planter Duncan Kenner as a wedding present for his wife and is named Ashland Plantation after Henry Clay’s home. Kenner will serve as the Confederate minister plenipotentiary to France during the Civil War. The House on the East Bank River Road has huge square plaster-over-brick columns, eight to a side. It will be called Belle Helene when the plantation changes owners in 1899 and has been the scene of many motion pictures.
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