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1867 The Tribune (successor to L’Union) is declared an official paper of the United States. 1867 On cotton plantations, former slaves demand a percentage of the crop and land with living quarters 1867 Reconstruction Act of 1867 is passed. 1868 Louisiana State Lottery is developed. 1868 The first ice factory is established in New Orleans. |
1871 American Baptist Home Missionary School establishes Leland University in New Orleans. 1871 The New Orleans Cotton Exchange is established to make the cotton industry more efficient 1871 Oscar J. Dunn is elected as the first black lieutenant governor of Louisiana. |
1877 Lafcadio Hearn arrives in New Orleans as a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial 1877 Reconstruction is over in Louisiana. 1877 Francis T. Nicholls (D) and Stephen B. Packard (R) take an oath of office for Governor. |
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United States is given the Statue of Liberty.
New Orleans hosts the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition The Daily Picayune states that those sentenced to over 6 years ought to be sentenced to death |
1892 James J. Corbett is the new world heavyweight boxing champion after his win over John L. Sullivan 1893 The Louisiana State Lottery Company holds its final drawing. 1893 2,000 are killed by a hurricane in lower Louisiana and Mississippi. 1893 Plessy v. Ferguson: Nicholls court affirms the lower court decision upholding Jim Crow Laws. |
1898 Alice Dunbar Nelson leaves Louisiana and never returns 1898 New restrictions required voters to own property and have certain literacy requirements. 1898 Machine guns are used for the first time on the battlefield. 1899 Minden, Louisiana receives a state record low of –16 degrees fahrenheit |
1908 Congress creates the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1908 Henry Ford makes the Model T.Model T cars can be bought for the first time for $825. 1909 Commercial mining starts in Sulphur Louisiana. 1909 The last yellow fever epidemic hits Louisiana 1909 Lincoln pennies are issued for the first time. |
1915 One of the worst hurricanes and floods hit New Orleans 1915 Germany initiates the first use of poison gas in WWI. 1916 A natural gas field is located near Monroe
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1920 Impressionism hits New Orleans. 1920 The U.S. Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. 1920 Women are granted the right to vote after the 19th amendment is ratified. |
1924 Louisiana’s carbon black industry now produces 77% of the nation’s carbon black. 1924 Native Americans are now considered United State Citizens. 1924 Huey Pierce Long unsuccessfully runs for governor. 1925 Xavier University, the first United States university for African Americas opens in New Orleans. 1925 Barataria and LaFourche Canal Company is sold to the Corps of Engineers |
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1864 The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 does not affect Union territory. 1865 Edmund Kirby-Smith surrenders to union troops Congress creates the Freedmen’s Bureau 1865 Carpetbaggers are northerners who move to the South after the Civil War. 1866 Cotton farmers must borrow money to reestablish their plantations after the war. 1866 The Republican Party tries to reopen the constitutional convention of 1864 to address black suffrage. 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1866 is passed allowing all citizens to their rights regardless of race. 1866 After
the Civil War, most people cannot afford paintings and instead
purchase drawings and etchings.
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1868 Louisiana is readmitted to the Union
1868 The Constitution of 1868. 1869 Local operas try to reinforce segregated seating after it has already been eliminated. 1869 A fire destroys the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning in Lafayette. 1870 Landscape painting slowly emerges in the South 1870 Robert E. Lee beats the Natchez in a steamboat race. 1870 The Louisiana State Seminary of Learning moves to Baton Rouge and becomes Louisiana State University. |
1872 Rex, the King of Carnival, is created for Mardi Gras festivities. 1872 Carbon Black is successfully produced for industrial purposes. 1872 Henry Clay Warmoth is impeached.
1873 P.B.S Pinchback steps down from his seat as Governor. 1874 Coushatta Massacre starts after J.B. Dickson, is shot. 1874 The White League is organized to support white supremacy 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875 prevents segregation in public places 1876 Timber Act of 1876 opens vast tracts of yellow pine and cypress swamplands to northern timber interests |
1878 Yellow fever kills over 5,000 Louisianians. 1879 Baton Rouge becomes Louisiana’s permanent capital. 1880 The Southern Art Union is founded 1880 Railroads are now crucial for transportation within the state 1881 Kansas is the first state to adopt prohibition after the Civil War. 1882 The Chinese are no longer allowed to immigrate to the United States after the Chinese Exclusion Act passes. 1883 The Supreme Court rules that Native Americans cannot be United States citizens. |
1886 Technical innovations make it easier to drag cypress logs out by boat or steam driven engines. 1887 H. Sophie Newcomb College for Women is founded. 1887 The Thibodaux Massacre results over a strike for higher wages 1887 The Dawes Act is passed. The last US-Indian War ends with the Battle of Wounded Knee. 1888 Louisiana cypress mills produce approximately 550 million shingles. 1888 Frederick Douglas is the first black to be nominated for President. 1889 The introduction of band saws revolutionizes the milling industry. 1890 Ellsworth Woodward becomes president of H. Sophie Newcomb College for Women 1890 The Midwest land between Lafayette and Lake Charles is now cultivated by thousands of rice farmers. 1891 The Citizens Committee is formed. |
1894 The lottery is made illegal. 1894 Edward Douglass White of Lafourche Parish is appointed to the United States Supreme Court. 1895 Alice Dunbar Nelson publishes her first book, “Violets and Other Tales.” 1895 Nine mills surround Lake Charles. 1896 William Woodward and many other artists produce images of urban decay 1896 The Dow Jones announces they will report some industrial stocks. 1896 The Supreme Court rules against Plessy. 1897 The “red light district” in New Orleans is established with the creation of Storyville. 1897 Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company in Harvey operates the largest cypress mill in the world. |
1900 New Orleans jazz slowly develops. 1900 It is estimated that Louisiana has 63% of the United States’ cypress ready to be cut down.
1901 The Magnolia becomes the official state flower. 1902 New Orleans Streetcar employees go on strike. 1905 Captured Confederate flags from the Civil War are returned to the South.
1906 Beauregard Parish is established. Shreveport hosts the first Louisiana State Fair. 1906 Louisiana State Museum is established. 1907 William Woodward founds the School of Architecture at Tulane. |
1910 New Orleans hosts an international aviation tournament. 1910 The United States no longer allows criminals, anarchists, paupers, or the sick to immigrate. 1910 Edward Douglass White is appointed as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 1912 Edenborn Cypress Black in Winn Parish is still considered to be the largest and oldest cypress. 1912 George Mestach succeeds in flying airmail from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. 1912 Today there are no large virgin cypress trees standing in the United States 1913 Income tax is put into effect after the 16th amendment passes. 1914 New Orleans Times Picayune is formed from the New Orleans Times Democrat and the New Orleans Picayune. 1914 The United States publicly announces that it will not get involved in WWI. |
1917 Storyville closes. 1917 The United States enters WWI. 1918 Cotton prices rise because of World War I. 1918 Louisiana adopts the 18th amendment of prohibition. 1919 The French Opera House in New Orleans burns down. 1919 There are six carbon black plants operating near Monroe producing 27% of the nation’s carbon black supply 1919 The League of Nations is established. 1919 The Communist Party of America is established in Chicago. |
1921 Tonalism, a branch of Impressionism, starts another influential movement on New Orleans painters. 1921 Louisiana adopts a new constitution 1921 President Harding approves the Willis Campell Act. 1923 Southern States Art League moves from Charleston to New Orleans. 1923 Gulf Lumber Company in Fullerton, Louisiana can now produce 120,000,000 board feet a year. 1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established. 1923 The Attorney General states that women may legally wear trousers anywhere. |
1926 Lake Charles becomes a large seaport because of the new waterways to the Gulf of Mexico 1926 Congress establishes the U.S. Customs Court 1927 Henry Ford stops production on the Model T and begins to produce the Model A. 1927 The worst flood in the United States hits Louisiana leaving 300,000 people homeless JUMP TO TIMELINE 5! |
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