TIMELINE |
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| PREHISTORY | Before the Europeans
Native Americans in Colonial Louisiana |
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| 1534 | Jacques Cartier enters the Gulf of St. Lawrence | |
| 1541 | Hernando DeSoto De Soto's Travels with maps and much more...great site! | |
| 1603 | Champlain sails up the St. Lawrence | |
| 1604 | Acadia Founded | |
| 1605 | Port Royal, Acadia Established | |
| 1607 | Jamestown Founded | |
| 1608 | Quebec Founded | |
| 1613 | Treaty of Utrecht | |
| 1620 | Plymouth Colony | |
| 1630 | Population of Quebec About 100 | |
| 1632 | Treaty of 1632 | |
| 1642 | Ville-Marie Founded (Montreal) | |
| 1653 | Montreal Established | |
| 1666 | La Salle Arrives in Montreal | |
| 1672 | Le Comte de Frontenac Appointed Governor of New France | |
| 1673 | Joliet and Marquette | |
| 1682 | La Salle Claims Possession of Louisiana for France | |
| 1684 | La Salle's Ill-Fated Voyage to Louisiana | |
| 1685 | Edict of Nantes | |
| 1686 | Arkansas Post Established | |
| 1697 | Hudson Bay Campaign | |
| 1698 | Pensacola TriCentennial 1698-1998 | |
| 1699 | Cahokia Mission Established | |
| 1699 | Cahokia Tricentennial | |
| 1699 | d'Iberville lands at Biloxi - Ft. Maurepas built | |
| 1699 | Francofete '99 - Louisiana's Tri-Centennial Celebration | |
| 1699 | Biloxi Tricentennial 1699-1999 | |
| 1699 | Franco Fete '99 | |
| 1701 | Fort Mississippi | |
| 1702 | Fort Louis Built in Old Mobile
Old Mobile Archaeology Home Page |
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| 1705 | First Child Born in The Colony of Louisiana | |
| 1711 | Fort Louis moved to present site of Mobile | |
| 1714 | Fort St. Jean Baptiste built at Nachitoches | 1716 | Los Adaes |
| 1718 | New Orleans established (Louisiana) | |
| 1720 | Fort Chartres | |
| 1720 | Biloxi new site | |
| 1720 | The Hainut Colonists
Passenger List |
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| 1722 | New Orleans destroyed by hurricane | |
| 1731 | Fort Vincennes (Indiana) | |
| 1731 | Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) | |
| 1735 | St. Genvieve (Missouri) | |
| 1755 | Acadians Deported - "Le Grande Derangement" | |
| 1762 | Louis XIV gives Louisiana to Spain | |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris ends 7 year war | |
| 1763 | British rule at Mobile
1763 List of Mobile inhabitants giving allegiance to Britain |
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| 1764 | First Acadians arrive in Louisiana | |
| 1766 | Cane River Established | |
| 1776 | Revolutionary War | |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase | |
| 1803-1812 | Louisiana is a Territory | |
| 1804 | U. S. acquires Upper Louisiana from Spain and France |
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| 1812 | April 30, 1812 - Congress admits Louisiana as a State |