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| South America & Caribbean:History of the Conquest of Peru by W. H. Prescott.. | |||||||||||
| North America:General Zachary Taylor's troops defeat Santa Anna's at the Battle of Buena Vista. General Winnfield Scott leads the first large scale amphibious assault at Vera Cruz. Scott's troops move toward Mexico City winning battle after battle. General Santa Anna abandons Mexico City. Frederick Douglass begins publication of the North Star. He has purchased his freedom by lecturing for anti-slavery societies in the U. S. and Europe. The Santa Fe Trail opens the New Mexico Territory and southern California to settlers. The state of Deseret is organized by Brigham Young who brings 15,000 Mormons with him to the Great Salt Lake. Minneapolis founded. Steam powered cotton mill in Mass. American Medical Association founded. Iowa State University begins. Immigration to the United States from the Netherlands begins. First U. S. adhesive postage stamps. Philadelphia Public Ledger begins use of a rotary press. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and Chicago Daily Tribune begin publication. Omoo by Herman Melville; Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; painting Raftsmen Playing Cards by George Caleb Bingham. Cyrus McCormick and John Deere run growing farm machinery factories; stamping process makes tin cans faster; ring donuts. In the next 15 years over one million out of 2.5 million immigrants to the U. S. will be Irish. Chinatown begins in New York City. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Women and girls limited to ten working hours a day in Britain. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto in London. More banks fail in Britain as depression continues, soup kitchens established. Flu epidemic in England will take 15,000 lives in the next two years. Irish potato crop is on the rebound, but 200,000 leave the country. Cartier opens a jewelry shop in Paris. Nitroglycerin discovered in Italy. British Museum opens. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; opera by Verdi; music by Liszt. Chocolate by Cadbury | |||||||||||
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On December 1, 1847 the Daily Picayune heralds the arrival of Zachary Taylor, Old Rough and Ready to New Orleans. Taylor, accompanied by New Orleanian George W. Kendall, publisher of the Daily Picayune during the war, has become a national hero. He retires to his home, Cypress Grove Plantation, but soon a call to leadership comes from Louisianians Sargent S. Prentiss and Samuel J. Peters of the Whig party. |
| Baroness Pontalba returns to New Orleans with her sons Alfred and Gaston. She will over see construction on the major buildings that now surround Jackson Square. The Pontalba Buildings, Upper and Lower will each consist of sixteen abutting four-story townhouses. The first floor is rented for commercial spaces and the top floors become apartments. The buildings will be renovated in the 1930s and the 1990s. When she has completed her construction in New Orleans she returns to Paris and for the last 23 years of her life cares for her husband. | Philanthropist Judah Touro buys a church at the corner of Canal and Bourbon to open New Orleans’ first synagogue. Today there are eight Jewish temples. | Frederick Larned Gates (1827-1897) is born. He is an outstanding citizen, businessman, lawyer and Civil War Veteran who served as district judge in the 1870s and 1880s. As an early industrialist, Gates developed a cotton seed oil business which was one of the New Iberia area’s major enterprises. | Medical College of Louisiana becomes the University of Louisiana. After 1881 it will be known as Tulane University. East Louisiana State Hospital, built from 1847 to 1854 as the state’s first permanent facility for the care of the mentally ill. One of the finest examples of Greek Revival style in Louisiana. Construction on the U. S. Custom House in New Orleans begun. |
Methodists have worshipped in Columbia, Caldwell Parish since before 1840. Circuit riders served the congregation until 1847, when a first pastor is appointed. Present First United Methodist Church in Columbia completed in 1911 from plans brought from Europe by a church member. | Built by Valcour Aime as a wedding present for his daughter, Felicity Plantation house will be acquired by Saturin Waguespack in 1889, whose descendants still occupy the house. Felicity, on the West bank, has red Italian marble fireplaces in the dining and living rooms and fourteen foot ceilings. Edward Douglas White |
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