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| North America:Lake Superior and Lake Huron are linked by a canal opening iron ore fields to the east. John Roebling builds a wire cable suspension bridge over the Niagara River. Amana community in frontier Iowa. First kindergarten in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University, Elmira Women's College. Chicago Tribune, Bartletts Familiar Quotations, Bulfinch's Mythology; poetry by Walt Whitman, Longfellow Congress commissions telegraph line from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Popular music by Stephen Foster, James Sayles, Richard Milburn. Miller Brewing in Milwaukee | |||||||||||
| Europe:Modern hygene pioneered in Crimean War which battles cholera and typhus on both sides. Modern photography is also there and a telegraph link connects Crimea to London. YWCA founded in London. David Livingston and Sir Richard Burton in Africa. Paris International Exposition; commercial aluminum production. Opera by Verdi; music by Liszt, Berlioz, Johannes Brahms Celluloid is the first patented man-made plastic. | |||||||||||
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The tragedy at the ball last year and increasing violence by maskers brings concerns to the press. The French-language Creole newspaper Bee proclaims Mardi Gras dead. |
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| For the third year in a row Yellow Fever rages in New Orleans. 2,500 will die this year. Leonidas Polk is the rector of the Trinity Church in New Orleans from 1855 to 1860. Frank Bellew is a caricaturist and cartoonist active in New Orleans circa 1855. He is considered an important influence in the evolution of the modern comic strip. |
Carrollton Courthouse erected at 719 S. Carrollton Avenue. It is designed by Henry Howard in the Greek Revival style and today serves as a high school for gifted students in the New Orleans Public School system. | The Swiss Society of New Orleans is founded to assist fellow country men and encourage Swiss immigration into Louisiana. | The Firemen's Charitable Association takes over administration of the fire department under a five year renewable contract with the city of New Orleans. During the 1860s it acquires a technologically sophisticated fire-alarm system. 24 companies serve the city with up-to-date steam-powered fire engines. | Presentation Academy is the first Catholic
School built in Avoyelles
Parish. It is founded by Daughters of the Cross of Treguier, France,
under Mother Mary Hyacinth Le Conniat on request of Bishop Martin. The
Battle of Mansura, May 16, 1864, began on the Convent’s grounds.
The Union Avenue Baptist Church of Bogalusa, Washington Parish is organized by 11 charter members in a log cabin at Pool’s Bluff . It was the first organized church, and it s building housed the first school in Bogalusa. Several log buildings also used as schools were occupied until 1874, when the first lumber church was built. The All Saints Episcopal Church in Patterson, La. is built in 1855, and is originally known as Holy Trinity. It will be moved to present location in DeQuincy, Calcasieu Parish, in 1942. Listed on National Register of Historic Places because of its superior Gothic Revival architecture. |
Tezcuco Plantation in St.
James Parish is built by Benjamin F. Tureaud, for his wife Aglae,
daughter of Michel Douradose Bringier of L'Hermitage. It is constructed
of plantation-made red brick and Louisiana Cypress. Purchased in 1888
by Dr. Julian T. Bringier. Retained by relatives until the 1940s. Tours
are available today.
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