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| South America & Caribbean:Events of this year in this region influencing LouisianaParaguay's president Lopez is killed ending war with Brazil, Argntina and Uruaguay in a treaty. La Nacion begins publication in Buenos Aires. | |||||||||||
| North America: Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi and J. H. Rainey of South Carolina are the first Black American members of the House of Representatives. 15th Amendment forbids denial of the right to vote on account of race, color or previous condidtion of servitude. U. S. and Britain hold convention on supression of the African slave trade. New York Cotton Exchange opens. F.A.O. Schwartz opens.Smith Brother Cough Drops. John D. Reckefeller incorporates Standard Oil of Ohio. Weyerhaeuser Co. U. S. corn crop 1 million barrels. Cotton crop 4 million bales. Cattle drives on Chilholm trail. Wheat replaces gold as California's principal export. Women's suffrage in territory of Utah. Northern Pacific Railroad begins in Minnesota. St. John's University, Syracuse University, Universities of Akron and Cincinnati, Chicago's Loyola University, Texas Christian University, Hampton University . Canada creates Manitoba after purchasing 251,000 square miles from Hudson's Bay Co. German-American businessman Heinrich Schliemann discovers ancient Troy and a golden treasure trove. New York Tribune installs first rotay press as production of paper from pulpwood begins. Nast creates donkey symbol for Democratic party. Nonfiction by Ralph Waldo Emerson; fiction by Louisa May Alcott; Boston Museum of Fine arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art. Most of 4 million buffalo south of the Platte River will be wiped out in the next four years. First can opener with rolling wheel invented as 30 million cans are produced.. First U. S. food trademark is the Underwood devil. Chicago population is 500,000. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Isabella II, driven from Spain two years ago is persuaded to abdicate and is succeeded by her son in name only as Italy's Victor Emmanuell II will accept the crown for a brief reign as Amadeo I after squabbles among European royalty. France declares war on Prussia precipitating the collapse of Napoleon III Second Empire. Lawyer Leon Gambetta escapes from beseiged Paris in a balloon, pioneering air travel. First all metal bicycle manufactured in England. Kingdom of Italy completed under Victor Emmanuel II. Home Rile Association formed in Ireland. Steam ships account for 16 percent of world shipping, but are still slower than clipper ships. DNA discovered , but its purpose still unknown. British Red Cross founded. Pope is voted infallible. Compulsory education in Britain.Fiction by Jules Verne and Charles Dickens, who dies this year; opera by Richard Wagner; music by Tchaikovsky | |||||||||||
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On June 30, 1870, the famous race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez ends with the Robert E Lee winning by six and a half hours. Captain John Cannon cut every corner to beat Captain Thomas Paul Leathers and the Natchez, which carried freight and passengers and had made all of its scheduled landings. Leathers had been born in 1816 in Kentucky, but preferred the gentility of the lower Mississippi. He went into shipbuilding, at first modest craft, then the large steamboats that he named after the Natchez Indians that fascinated him. He built eight of them, each bigger than the previous. |
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November 1870
A steam engine sugar mill evaporator put in by Edgar Ruiz at La Chincha Plantation, in November is the last device of its kind in St. Bernard Parish, a relic of a by-gone era. |
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Jefferson City is annexed by the City of New Orleans. Originally a part of Jefferson Parish, the area was incorporated as Jefferson City in 1850. By 1860 its population was 5,107, including 131 free black citizens, New Orleans also absorbs Algiers. Col. Alva Morris Holbrook becomes editor and proprietor of the Daily Picayune. He has been a partner since 1839. |
Alexander J. Drysdale (1870-1934 is a famed Louisiana landscape artist known for his moss covered oak trees. | Joseph Fabacher is a pioneer rice farmer in Acadia Parish. | Straight University is established on Esplanade Avenue as an institution of higher learning for African Americans. It is named for a generous donor, Seymour Straight. In 1877 the building housing the university burns down and the school is moved to Canal Street. In 1935 it merged with New Orleans University to become Dillard University. | Felix Pierre Poché, Civil War diarist, Democratic party leader, prominent jurist and one of founders of American Bar Association, builds a Victorian Renaissance Revival style plantation house with an unusual front dormer near Convent in St. James Parish. | Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905), world famous actor and artist, designs and builds a home Jefferson Island on what was once known as Orange Island in Vermilion Parish. | ||||||
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