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| South America & Caribbean:After four years of war coalition forces occupy Paraguay's capital. Nearly two thirds of the county's adult population have died or disappeared. Cubans begin a ten year war with Spain. Slavery will continue on the island until the 1880s. La Prensa in Buenos Aires will become the largest newspaper in S America. Earthquakes kill 25,000 in Ecuador and Peru. | |||||||||||
| North America:President Johnson dismisses Secretary of War Stanton, bringing impeachment charges from radical Republicans, but the Senate vote falls one short. In June Congress authorizes readmission of the seven confederate states if black suffrage is retained. The 14th Amemndment to the Constitution is ratified. Navajo chiefs are forced to sign a treaty that confines them to a small reservation that is mostly desert. Government workers limited to an eight hour day. Rockefeller begins a drive to to eliminate competition in the petroleum business, George Westinghouse invents an airbrake for trains with other innovations for the railroad industry such as the first refrigerated car. A railroad bridge spans the Mississippi River at Quincy Illinois. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad begins. QWERTY keyboard for typewriters is conceived and Remington Fire Arms Company will produce the rapid-fire typewriters. Col. Carey Styles leads re-establisment of Georgia state government and the Atlanta Constitution. Louisville Courier-Journal; first issue of the World Almanac; advertising firms begin to make magazines more profitable, Rand-McNally & Company begins printing railroad tickets and timetables. Fiction by Bret ; painting by Bierstadt. First Memorial day. John Muir in California. Armour and Company, Tabasco Sauce
The tenth Democratic national convention meets in New York to nominate Horatio Seymour. Susan B. Anthony makes an appearance to support women's suffrage.
The fourth Republican national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Ulysses S. Grant with Schuyler Colfax as his running mate.. |
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| Europe: In Britain Disraili heads a Tory government in February, but he is replaced by a sweeping Liberal victory in November. Isabella II of Spain is driven to France as the provisional government establishes universal suffrage and free press. Perigueux cave Cro Magnon skeltons found in France. Painting by Manet; opera by Richard Wagner, Offenbach; music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Johann Strauss. Croquet preceeds tennis at Wimbeldon; badminton; first bicycle race in France. | |||||||||||
| January 1868
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock is the new Commander of the 5th Military District and removes all radicals from state offices. Benjamin Franklin Flanders resigns as the governor. On January 8 Joshua Baker takes Oath of Loyalty to the Union and is appointed Military Governor by General Winfield Scott Hancock. Baker supports the lenient reconstruction plan of Andrew Johnson. His administration has little influence on the course of the Louisiana government. |
February 1868
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March 1868
November 23, 1867 to March 9, 1868; A state constitutional convention is held. |
April 1868 Warmoth is chosen over Major Francis E. Dumas to run against Talliaferro for governor at age 26 and defeats him by 2 votes. Oscar J. Dunn a black house painter is elected Lt. Governor but dies shortly after and is replaced by the president pro tempe of the State Senate Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a mulatto. Warmoth is accused by most of being a prince of corruption. He profits hugely, his newspaper has a state contract and he deals in state bonds while the state debt and taxes rise. |
May 1868
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June 1868
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July 1868
The state legislature elects William Pitt Kellogg to the U. S. Senate. |
August 1868
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September 1868
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October 1868
October 30 An act to form a new Parish to be called the Parish of Iberia, La. A., 1868, 1st session of the 1st legislature No. 208, Sect 1...That from and after the passage of this act there shall be a new parish formed from a portion of the north part of the parish of St. Mary, to be called and known by the name of the Parish of Iberia. |
November 1868
In presidential race Democrat Horatio Seymour carries Louisiana, but Grant wins. Henry C. Warmoth creates the State Returning Board. All election returns are reported to the State Returning Board for validity and approval. At this time Republicans are divided into state government under Warmoth and the Customhouse gang consisting of Federal employees. The state government supports black suffrage, but is still prejudiced. Beginning this year elections in Louisiana will be proven dishonest and violent through the year 1900. Groups such as the Knights of the White Camellia terrorize black citizens while the State Returning Board consistently reverses the Democratic majority in many voting districts. At this time Republicans are divided into state government under Warmoth and the Customhouse gang consisting of Federal employees. The state government supports black suffrage, but is still prejudiced. Warmoth supports liberal Horace Greely against U.S. Grant and Democrat John McEnery vs. William Pitt Kellogg at the Customhouse for governor. The state returns are confused and fraudulent, forcing Grant to name the winners. His last two years in office have been a struggle for Warmoth until he is impeached and suspended from office for the last 35 days. |
December 1868
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| The infamous Louisiana State Lottery Company is created. | Pierre Landry (1841-1921) is the mayor of Donaldsonville in 1868. Within a few years he is also named president of the Ascension Parish police jury, justice of the peace and tax collector. He was then elected a state representative while serving as president of the Ascension Parish school board and as Donaldsonville postmaster. When he was named to the state senate in 1874 he gave up all his other posts, but in 1879 he is chosen a member of the state constitutional convention. Pierre Landry is a free man of color, the son of a slave and her master, born in 1841 on the plantation of Dr. François Provost near Donaldsonville. Although he was trained as a confectioner and cook he was mostly self-taught. Known as Caliste, he was sold at the doctor’s death in auction to M. S. Bringier, owner of Houmas Plantation and later passed to John Burnside when he bought Houmas House. In 1866 he changed his name to Pierre and he left the plantation moving to Donaldsonville. He rose quickly in local politics and left state politics in 1884 with clean hands. He then threw himself into religion and education with the same zeal. In 1891 he was named presiding elder of the South New Orleans District and in 1900 became head of the Guilbert Academy, a school for young black men on St. Charles Avenue located where De La Salle High School stands today. |
Charles Buddy Bolden is born. A drayman by trade, he is considered to be the first jazz band leader. He was committed to the East Louisiana Hospital for the Mentally Ill in 1907 and died there in 1931. | St. John the Baptist Church in New Orleans, designed by German Architect Albert Diettel and located at Dryades and Clio is begun. | ||||||||
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