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| South America & Caribbean:Grenada begins dominance of nutmeg and mace spices. | |||||||||||
| North America:Abraham accepts nomination as a U. S. Senator, but loses to Stephen Douglas. Minnesota becomes the 32 state. Denver founded in part of Kansas Territory which will become Colorado, gold rush will begin not far away. Socialist community La Reunion folds near Dallas. Macy's Department Store beginnings. Stage from St. Louis to San Francisco takes 24 days. First Pullman car. Cornelious Vanderbilt sells his New York to California lines, begins buying New York railroads. Iowa State University, Oregon State University. E. R. Squibb and Sons. Poetry by Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes; painting by Winslow Homer; Our American Cousin first shown in New York. Popular songs The Yellow Rose of Texas and The Old Gray Mare. Central Park opens. Mason jars introduced. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Failed attempt to assassinate Napoleon III. Russian Tsar begins to free serfs. German scientist shows that organic molecules made from linked Carbon atoms. Gray's Anatomy. Bernadette has visions at Lourdes. First TransAtlantic Cable has bad insulation and soon fails. Fiction by Anthony Trollope. First house of haute couture established in Paris by Charles Frederick Worth. Big Ben chimes in London. First mechanical refrigerator in France. | |||||||||||
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February 10, 1858; Alice Heine (1858-1925) is born in the home of her late great-grandfather Dr. Christian Miltenberger at 900 Royal Street. Her father is from the famous European banking family Heine Freres and a nephew of German poet Heinrich Heine, and has come to New Orleans to organize cotton financing. At 16 she accompanies her father to Paris where her beauty excites Parisian society. A year later she marries Duke Armand de Richelieu who dies five years later. She continues to make waves as an international hostess of her Paris salon rubbing elbows with leading artists, politicians and financiers. On October 30, 1889 she maries Prince Albert of Monaco and is described as the embodiment of virtue, charity and generousity, small , slender and graceful with pure blonde hair, brown eyes and delicate pink skin. She separates from the prince in 1902, he dies soon afterward. Alice Heine dies in Paris December 23, 1925 at age 68. |
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William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist and writer, is visiting New Orleans. He is entertained by his admirers at Boudro's Gardens in Milneburg. |
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley, born illegitimate in Wales in 1841, arrives in New Orleans as John Rowlands, a cabin boy on the ship Windermere out of Liverpool. He was taken in by Henry Morton Stanley a prosperous merchant and broker. His mentor died in 1861 on a trip to Cuba, but Rowlands took his name and fought for the Confederacy. He became a merchant seaman and a newspaperman. In 1867 the New York Herald hired him as a foreign corespondent and two years later its publisher called him back from Madrid and gave him the assignment to find Livingstone the famed English explorer who had disappeared into Africa three years before. Stanley went on to discover the Congo. He returned home to England and was knighted by Queen Victoria for services rendered. He worked with King Leopold of Belgium to develop the Congo. In 1890 he married and from 1895 to 1900 served as a member of parliament. He returned to the U. S. in 1891 as a lecturer. He died in 1904. Paul Morphy (1837-1884), 21, chess champion, conquers Europe. Last year he was one of the 16 players in the nation to be invited to enter the First American Chess Congress in New York and his victory there made him America s first and youngest chess champion. He went on to best Chess Champions in London, Paris and finally Germany where his triumph over Adolf Anderson made him undisputed champion of the world. Later Morphy will completely abandon chess and become a world class recluse. |
Photographs created between 1858 and 1861 by Jay Dearborn Edwards and his partner E. H. Newton, Jr. are the earliest photographic images on paper that depict New Orleans. | The Irish Channel neighborhood builds three Catholic Churches. The German community builds St. Mary's Assumption (finished in 1860 and still in use) at the corner of Constance and Josephine. The Irish finished St. Alphonsus in 1857 (damaged roof) around the corner and the French erect Notre Dame de Bon Secours (razed 1926) on Jackson Avenue. The area of the Irish Channel began as the plantation of Bienville, was within the City of Lafayette by 1825 and was incorporated into New Orleans in 1852 . Factors' Row, 802-22 Perdido street is built. |
The New Orleans Canal and Navigation Company replaces the defunct New Orleans Navigation Company formed in 1805 by the territorial legislature. The new company will maintain the Carondelet Canal until it is completely filled in in 1938. | Highland Road in Baton Rouge, once called High Lands Road, cleared under Spanish rule, was lined by 1858 with sugar and cotton plantations. Beginning at South Boulevard, it extended southeastwardly approx. nine miles along Bayou Fountain. City of Ville Platte is incorporated and will become Parish seat of Evangeline Parish. The area first settled in late eighteenth century on the Spanish Royal Road. Marcellin Garand, former adjutant major in the French army, regarded as founder. |
Edward J. Gay builds a great mansion on the Westbank and calls it St. Louis Plantation after his birthplace. Replacing an earlier house that is lost to the river, St. Louis has eleven bedrooms and fourteen-foot high ceilings. It is said to be the oldest family owned and operated working sugar plantation on the Mississippi River. It is open for tours.
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