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| North America:The Fugitive Slave Act is defied in Boston by an angry mob of blacks on February 15. Prohibition laws begin in Main and spread to other northern states. Erie Railroad links New York City to the Great Lakes, Pennsylvania Railroad reaches Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reaches Wheeling, W. Va. Pacific Railway is the first west of the Mississippi at St. Louis. 4,400 miles of track laid east of the Mississippi River. Land in Iowa and Minnesota is ceded by Sioux chieftains July 23. Amelia Bloomer begins her assault on womens's clothing. Oneida Community is a utopian model. YMCA opens first American offices in Montreal and Boston.Seattle founded in Oregon. U. S. Mints $4 million in tiny $1 gold pieces and 3 cccent silver coins. 40 Clipper ships built this year and next. Northwestern University begins near Chicago, Duke University, University of Minnesota. New York Times begins publication, Fire damages the Library of Congress, Harriet Beecher Stowe releases Uncle Tom's Cabin in installments; Moby Dick by Mailville; House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorn. John James Audubon dies. Stephen Foster writes popular songs. Singer sewing machine patent. Federated Department Stores starts as Lazarus Brothers in Ohio. First wholesale marketed ice cream in Baltimore. The U. S. has nearly 24 million people with 2.5 million new immigrants this year, 1/10th from Ireland. | |||||||||||
| Europe: A coup d'etat by President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Mornay, his half brother ends France's Third Republic. Nine years of despotic repression begins. Reuters News Service uses carrier pigeons. First telegraph cable laid across the English Channel. Reuters News Service uses cable. The London Great Exhibition known for the Crystal Palace, shows the Corliss steam engine invented by George Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island and the McCormick reaper. A popular drink is Schweppes soda water and Rhine wine. It weigns 1700 tons. Law of electromagnetic induction, high tension induction coil. Photographic advances in England, blindness in Ireland caused by potato famine. Rigoletto: Verdi Opera of Victor Hugo drama; music by Schumann and Liszt. A U.S. schooner wins a yacht race and takes home what will become the America's Cup. Claims in England that coffee is diluted by chicory. Population in France 36 million, German States 34 million, Italy 24 million and Britain 20 million. | |||||||||||
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Internationally acclaimed Swedish soprano Jenny Lind is on a tour of American Cities. In New Orleans she gives thirteen concerts between February 10 and March 8, 1851. |
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Charles Mackey, author of Life and Liberty in America wrote that New Orleans is less like an American city than any other in the United States and reminds the European of Havre or Boulogne-sur-Mer. Winn Parish is officially created by the state legislature in 1851 from lands originally belonging to the bordering parishes of Rapides, Natchitoches and Catahoula. Official organization was completed in 1852. |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk composes The Banjo which musically anticipates jazz rhythms. |
First St. Charles Hotel burns to the ground. St.. Louis Cathedral finished as present structure. | The Old Shiloh Community Post Office in Union Parish is established. It will be discontinued 1906. It is the site of Concord Institute, a Baptist college, c. 1877-1884. Two Louisiana governors were born nearby - William W. Heard (1900-1904) and Ruffin G. Pleasant (1916-1920). | During the 1850s Elizabeth Kettenring comes to New Orleans from Bavaria to attend the wedding of her brother and stays to marry another French Market butcher Louis Dutrey. She begins cooking breakfast for her husband and other workers at the French Market. The couple opens a restaurant at 200 Levee St. called Dutrey's place that served only one meal, breakfast, at 11 a.m., the most convenient hour for the butchers. Dutrey died in 1875 and five years later his widow married Hypolite Begue and the cafe was renamed Begue s Restaurant. Only 30 meals were prepared each day and reservations were hard to come by. Many famous visitors included it in their itinerary of the Crescent city. Madame Begue died in 1906 and her husband in 1917. The tradition lives on at Tujaques. | During the 1850s John Burnside buys the Garden District home of James Robb, a banker and railroad tycoon who had suffered financial reverses. Also in the Garden District at 2127 Prytania a new a house designed by James Calrow is going up. It will be called the Harris-McGinnis House. From 1939 to 1954 it will house the American Red Cross and in 2001 It will become a Bed and Breakfast called Magnolia Mansion. Calrow also designed Anne Rice's house around the corner on First St. Elizabeth Kettenring, Madame Begue Jenny Lind Winn Parish |
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