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A History of Louisiana (4th ed.). New York: University Publishing Company; Le Page Du Pratz, Antoine-Simon (1774). The History of Louisiana Or Of The Western Parts Of Virginia And Carolina. London: T. Becket; Martin, Francois Xavier (1829). The History of Louisiana From The Earliest Period.
1801 – France regains power, on paper. 1803 Napoleon sells a huge swath of North America to the U.S. via the Louisiana Purchase.Formalities of the Spanish transfer to France and the French cession to the United States do not take place until November and December, at the Cabildo; with Upper Louisiana ()'s ceremony occurring in the spring of 1804.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
1805 – Spanish Town, first residential area, is established. 1806 – Beauregard Town, second neighborhood, is established. 1810 – Baton Rouge becomes part of the Republic of West Florida in September, [2] but by December the republic is annexed by the U.S. into the Territory of Orleans, which in 1812 becomes the state of Louisiana.
Louisiana Historical Quarterly. 27: 527– 612. Guenin-Lelle, Dianne (2016). The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1496804860. Haas, Edward F. (1988). Political Leadership in a Southern City: New Orleans in the Progressive Era, 1896–1902. New Orleans: McGinty Publications.
Republic of Indian Stream (1832–1835) is represented on the map as the disputed territory between Maine and New Hampshire of the U.S. and Quebec and New Brunswick of Canada. Republic of Madawaska (1827) is represented on the map as the disputed territory between Maine (U.S.) and Canada. The area, known as Madawaska Valley, was transferred to ...
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.
Six years after the city was incorporated, dissatisfaction over the name Charleston arose and, on March 16, 1867, Charleston, Louisiana, was renamed and incorporated as the town of Lake Charles. By the time of the U.S. Civil War , many Americans from the North, along with a large influx of continental Europeans and Jews , had settled the area.