PREHISTORYBefore the Europeans - Native Americans in Colonial Louisiana 1534Jacques Cartier enters the Gulf of St. Lawrence 1541Hernando DeSoto De Soto's Travels with maps and much more...great site! 1603Champlain sails up the St. Lawrence 1604Acadia Founded 1605Port Royal, Acadia Established 1607Jamestown Founded 1608Quebec Founded 1613Treaty of Utrecht 1620Plymouth Colony 1630Population of Quebec About 100 1632Treaty of 1632 1642Ville-Marie Founded (Montreal) 1653Montreal Established 1666La Salle Arrives in Montreal 1672Le Comte de Frontenac Appointed Governor of New France 1673Joliet and Marquette 1682La Salle Claims Possession of Louisiana for France 1684La Salle's Ill-Fated Voyage to Louisiana 1685Edict of Nantes 16861697Hudson Bay Campaign 1698Pensacola TriCentennial 1698-1998 1699Cahokia Mission Established 1699Cahokia Tricentennial d'Iberville lands at Biloxi - Ft. Maurepas built Francofete '99 - Louisiana's Tri-Centennial Celebration Biloxi Tricentennial 1699-1999 Franco Fete '99 1701Fort Mississippi 1702Fort Louis Built in Old Mobile Old Mobile Archaeology Home Page 1705First Child Born in The Colony of Louisiana 1711Fort Louis moved to present site of Mobile 1714Fort St. Jean Baptiste built at Nachitoches 17161718New Orleans established (Louisiana) 1720Biloxi new site The Hainut Colonists Passenger List 1722New Orleans destroyed by hurricane 1731Fort Vincennes (Indiana) Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) 1735St. Genvieve (Missouri) 1755Acadians Deported - "Le Grande Derangement" 1762Louis XIV gives Louisiana to Spain 1763Treaty of Paris ends 7 year war British rule at Mobile 1763 List of Mobile inhabitants giving allegiance to Britain 1764First Acadians arrive in Louisiana 17661776Revolutionary War 1803Louisiana is a Territory 1804U. S. acquires Upper Louisiana from Spain and France 1812April 30, 1812 - Congress admits Louisiana as a State |
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