Neo–Indians begin to make stone and pottery vessels and various decorative and ceremonial objects. 
Neo-Indians, especially Poverty Point people develop extensive trade networks.
Neo-Indians begin to form groups whose population expands and becomes more regionalized.
Poverty Point artifacts
Poverty Point people develop new methods for cooking food.  		  Marksville Indian pottery designs become more ornamental. 
Marksville Culture is influenced by ideas and traditions of other native peoples. 
Marksville Indians are culturally influenced by the Hopewell Indians of Ohio and Illinois. 
   Caddo  Indians develop a new style of pottery in varied shapes. 
The Mississippian Culture develops an immense trade network. 
Caddo  Indians developed elaborate burial rituals.
   1541
Both Caddo and Tunica tribes have a highly developed economies. 
1541 Hernando de Soto is the first European to reach the mouth of the Mississippi River.
 
1672
Joliet and Marquette explore along the Mississippi River. 
1682 La Salle retraces Joliet and Marquette’s route going on to reach the Gulf of Mexico.
 
1700
Settlers are almost entirely dependant on nearby Indians for food and supplies. 
1700
Bienville leads an exploratory party up the Mississippi to modern Baton Rouge.
1702
France begins to realize it cannot afford the supplies or manpower to make Louisiana profitable. 
1702 Iberville is called away to a battle.
 

 
1719 The Company of the Indies mounts the first real effort to import African slaves to Louisiana.
1719
The first African slave ship arrives in Louisiana.
1720
Adrien de Pauger is sent to New Orleans to plan the new settlement.
1721
New Orleans is named capital of French Louisiana.
1721
Catholic and Protestant German settlers begin arriving in Louisiana.		    
1724
 The French enact laws to govern slavery in the Louisiana and Caribbean colonies.
1724
Catholic Holy Days are observed.
1725
The first school is established in Louisiana by Capuchin Father Raphael de Luxembourg
1725
Pierre Sidrac Dugue de Boisbriand is named governor. 		   
1729
The Natchez War 
1730
Tutors become regulated by the Superior Council.
1730  The Company of the Indies cannot pay dividends.
1730
The first threat of a slave revolt occurs in Louisiana. 		 
1741  Bienville retires.
1741
The office of Vicar-General is given to the Jesuits. 
1741
Vaudriel establishes elegant society balls.
1743
France denies Bienvilles petition to France requesting permission to open a Jesuit college. 
1743
Governor Marquis de Vaudreuil tries to address colony’s lack of currency by issuing paper money.		   1760
Choctaw Indians forced out of their homes by the British, begin pouring into Louisiana
1762
Treaty of Fountainbleau
1763
Peace of Paris Treaty marks the end of the French and Indian War.  		    1767
Ulloa implements strict trade regulations. 
1767
Governor Ulloa takes posession of the colony.
1768
Superior Council orders Ulloa to leave Louisiana. 
   1770
O’Reilly relinquishes control to Governor Luis de Ungaza y Amezaga and departs for Cuba. 
1770
Governor Ungaza turns a blind eye toward illegal trade in contraband.
1770
Governor Ungaza orders a new rectory to be built for the Capuchinn.
1770
Gambling and other games of chance are outlawed.		  
1777 Bernardo de Galvez is named Governor of Louisiana.
1777
Governor Galvez implements a number of economic and trade reforms.
1777
The first public schools are established for in Louisiana by the Spanish government.
1778
Free trade laws are inacted.
1778
American forces plunder British owned plantations on the Mississippi and Amite Rivers. 		 
1781
Governor Galvez attacks British forces in Pensacola.
1781
The earliest recorded reference to Mardi Gras in New Orleans suggest the traditions are well established.
1782 Andres Almonaster y Roxas, receives a patent to rebuild Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
 
1783
Second Treaty of Paris
1784
Juan San Malo, a runaway slave, leads a group of other runaways. 		 
1788 Fire destroys four-fifths of the buildings in New Orleans.
1788
St. Louis Church is destroyed by fire.
1788
The Cane River Community, is founded near Natchitoches.
1790
The Society of Friends petitions Congress for the abolition of slavery.
1790
A Capuchin priest, attempts to establish the Spanish Inquisition in Louisiana. 		  1792
“ El Coliseo,” a playhouse theater, opens in New Orleans. 
1792
 French Revolutionary War breaks out. 
1792
A public dance hall is opened and operated by the Cabildo.
1793
King Louis XVI of France and his wife Maria Antionette are sentenced to death.
1793
Pope Pius VI  establishes the Diocese of Louisiana and Florida in New Orleans.		   1796
Andres Almonaster y Roxas dies.
1797
Manuel Gayoso de Lemos is named Govenor of Louisiana.
1799
Sebastian Calvo de la Puerta Y O’Fariel, Marqui de casa Calvo is named transitional governor.
1800
Treaty of San Ildefonso- Napoleon forces Spain to return Louisiana to France.
1800
Santiago Bernardo Coquet obtains a permit to hold public inter-racial dances. 		 
Paleo-Indians are nomadic hunter-gatherers that live in the region stretching from Texas to Arkansas. 
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Tchefuncte Indians are the first to make large amounts of clay pottery.
Tchefuncte Indians rely less and less on long distance trade. 
Tchefuncte Indians lead a simpler life than their predecessors. 
Marksville Indians develop fairly elaborate burial rituals.  		  Troyville-Coles Creek Indians produce more durable  pottery for more uses.
Troyville-Coles Creek Indians develop close ties with people living north and west of them.
Troyville-Coles Creek Indians continue to build ceremonial mounds. 
Troyville-Coles Creek Indians built centralized temple buildings.     		  1492
Christopher Columbus lands in the “New World.”
1513
Ponce de Leon, discovers Florida.
1519
Cortez lands in Mexico.
1534
Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claiming the territory for France. 		 
1643   Louis XIV becomes King of France.

  1699
Early explorers find natural resources to exploit.
1699 Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville and his brother Bienville land a crew of four ships at Ship Island.
1699
Iberville locates the mouth of the Mississippi River on Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras day.
1699
Gumbo is a traditional Louisiana dish that represents the cross-cultural influences of the colonial period. 

 
 
 
1717
The Company of the Indies encourages planting cash crops for export and consumption.
1717
The Company of the Indies mounts a campaign to bring settlers to Louisiana.
1718
 Bienville is named governor for a third time.
  1722
Capuchin priests begin ministry in Louisiana. 
1722
A hurricane destroys two-thirds of the property in New Orleans. 
1722
Place de Negres Square becomes an area where slaves gather on their day off.		   1726
The Company of the Indies secures a contract with the Ursuline Nuns to establish a school and hospital.
1727 Ursuline School for Girls is established.
1727
Etienne de Perier is named governor.
1727
The Ursuline Nuns- The Ursulines arrive in Louisiana.
1727
French country girls are sent to Louisiana with a dowery from the King of France.		  
1731 Louisiana comes under control of the Crown.
1732
Bienville appointed governor of the royal colony for a fourth time.
1733
Bienville frees two of his slaves.
1736
Jean Louis, French sailor, dies and leaves 10,000 livres to found a charity hospital in New Orleans.
  1747
Chickasaw renew raids against the colony. 
1752
Vaudriel attacks the Chickasaw. 
1753
Louis Billouart, Chevalier de Kerlerec, is named governor.
1754
French and Indian War
1759
Quebec falls to the British.
1765
Cajun Mardi Gras- Mardi Gras celebrations develop.
1765
The first wave of Acadians begin arriving in Louisiana.
1765
The Jesuits are expelled from Louisiana.
1765
Cajun music, is a style of music that reflects influences on the Acadians.
1766 Antonio de Ulloa is named first Spanish Governor of Louisiana.
   		  
1769 Alejandro O’Reilly, an Irish born Spanish general, arrives in Louisiana.
1769
Alejandro O’Reilly attempts to control inflation by declaring fixed food prices.
1769
Alejandro O’Reilly divides the colony into eleven parishes. 		  1773
The Cabildo creates a slave fund to help owners for the cost of catching runaways.
1774
The first Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia.
1775
The American Revolutionary War breaks out.
1776
Governor Ungaza approves plan to send supplies to American forces.

  1779
The first Canary Islanders, or Islesnos, arrive in the colony.
1780
More slaves begin arriving in Louisiana.
1780
Governor Galvez and his forces take Mobile.
1780
The first public food market is licensed by the Cabildo in New Orleans.		  
1785 Esteban Miro is named Governor of Louisiana.
1786
Governor Miro implements a generous land grant policy to promote immigration.
1786
Almonaster pays for construction of a new chapel for the Ursuline Nuns.
1787
The provinces of Louisiana are transferred to the Bishopry of Havana. 		  1791
A number of private schools is established by people fleeing the Haitian slave revolt.
1791 Baron hector de Carondelet is named Governor of Louisiana.
1791 Voodoo is a religion that develops in the French Caribbean.
 		   1794
Saint Louis Cathedral is dedicated two days before Christmas.
1795
Bishop Cardenas requires teachers to be reviewed by the Church authorities.
1795
Sugar cane production explodes.
1795
Cotton replaces tobacco as major cash crop
1795
Point Coupee Slave Revolt
1795
 Luis Ignacio Penalvery Cardenas is named the first Bishop of Louisiana.
 		   1801
Juan Manuel de Salcedo is named governor.
1803
 The Louisiana Purchase is negotiated.  





1803
St. Domingue slave revolt.
               
 
                                                          
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