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| South America & Caribbean:Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas flees after losing his fight for Uruguay to Justo de Urguiza aided by Brazillian and Uraguaian forces. Paraguay gains independance from Argentina. | |||||||||||
| North America:The sixth Democratic national convention meets in Baltimore to nominate Franklin Pierce for president. He defeats Whig candidate Winfield Scott as the Whig party begins to fade from American politics. Slavery prohibition laws inMassachusetts and Vermont. Compulsory School in Massachusetts; Tufts College; Antioch College. Boston Public Library opens. Uncle Sam cartoon first appears. Kerosene extracted from coal and used for lubrication and fuel. Wells Fargo and Company. The National Road reaches Illinois. First Boston street horse drawn railway. Pittsburg and Philadelphia linked by rail. Studebaker Brothers will become the largest wagon maker by the end of this century. Otis safety hoister. Beekeeping advances, first hlostein cow in America. Uncle Tom's Cabin becomes a play that will gain success in the north. Stephen Foster Music is popular. Immigration large from Ireland and China. | |||||||||||
| Europe: As Napoleon III Louis Napoleon proclaims a second French Empire. First aeronautical society in Paris. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. Art by Ford Maddox Brown, Gustave Moreau, John Everette Millais; theater by Alexandre Dumas; music by Schumann, Rubinstein. Bon Marche Department Store in Paris. | |||||||||||
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January 1852
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February 1852
Reports of the Company of Bedouins present a significant parade on horseback. |
March 1852
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April 1852
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May 1852
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June 1852
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July 1852
July 5, 1852 to July 31, 1852; A state constitutional convention is held. |
August 1852
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September 1852
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October 1852
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November 1852
Since John Slidell, a leader of the Democrats is focusing on a national office the Democrats turn to Paul Octave Hebert as their nominee for governor. He campaigns against Republican features of the new constitution, calls for internal improvements, reform of the state militia, a banking system by general laws and redemption in specie of all paper money. He is running against Judge Bordelon, a Whig from St. Landry Parish and wins 17,334 votes to 15,781. |
December 1852
In December New Orleans has elaborate memorial services and parades for Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, all popular figures in America at this time. |
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New Orleans annexes the City of Lafayette as expansion into uptown begins. The Garden District is in this part of town which was once the plantation of Celeste de Marigny Enoul de Livaudais. Touro Infirmary is founded by Judah Touro in a home near the river on Coliseum Square. |
The New Orleans Navigation Company formed in 1805 by the territorial legislature has become insolvent after widening and maintaining the Carondelet Canal for 47 years. It will be replaced in 1858. | Salmon Lusk Wright is born. Near Crowley he developed the world's best seed rice which revived that industry by insuring wider markets. His varieties that are used today for breeding purposes are Blue Rose, Louisiana Pearl, Early Prolific Edith, and Lady Wright. | Beginning in 1852 John Burnside develops an interest in sugar plantations and buys not one, but ten of them, including Houmas House. With an estate of over 12,000 acres and perhaps 2,200 slaves he is known as the Sugar Prince of Louisiana. Burnside was one of the first planters to use freemen for planting sugar. proving that it would work. | Official organization of Winn
Parish was completed in 1852 from lands originally belonging to the
bordering parishes of Rapides,
Natchitoches
and Catahoula. The Epps House in Avoyelles Parish is built by Edwin Epps. Originally located near Holmesville on Bayou Boeuf about three miles away. From 1843 to 1853, Epps, a small planter, owned Solomon Northrup, author of famous slave narrative Twelve Years A Slave. |
Henry Watkins Allen purchases plantation from Colonel William Nolan for $300,000, which includes 125 slaves. The house, across the river from Baton Rouge will be burned by Federal troops during the War.
Salmon Lusk Wright Paul Octave Hebert wins over Judge Bordelon to become governor |
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