Louisiana: Timeline

1766   Antonio de Ulloa Antonio de Ulloa

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, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.

1807   Former U.S. United States

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 Vice President Vice president

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 Aaron Burr Aaron Burr

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 is acquitted of treason Treason

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. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico Mexico

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 to become part of an independent republi

1811   Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1812   Louisiana is admitted as the 18th U.S. state U.S. state

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.

1812   Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state U.S. state

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, the territory by that name was renamed to Missouri Territory.

1848   U.S. presidential election, 1848: Whig Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor

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 of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan Michigan

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 in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.

1861   American Civil War American Civil War

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: Louisiana secedes from the Union United States

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.

1865   American Civil War: Confederate General Richard Taylor, commanding all Confederate forces in Alabama Alabama

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, Mississippi Mississippi

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, and eastern Louisiana, surrenders his forces to Union General E.R.S. Canby at Citronelle, Alabama.

1935   Senator United States Senate

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 Huey Long Huey Long

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 of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15½ hours and was filled by 150,000 words.

1935   Carl Weiss fatally shoots US Senator United States Senate

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 from Louisiana, Huey Long Huey Long

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, nicknamed "Kingfish", in the Louisiana capitol building in Baton Rouge.

1935   Carl Weiss fatally shoots US Senator United States Senate

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 from Louisiana, Huey Long Huey Long

Huey Pierce Long, Jr., was an American politician [i] from the U.S. state [i] ... 

, nicknamed "Kingfish", in the Louisiana capitol building in Baton Rouge.

1940   U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division U.S. 45th Infantry Division

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 (previously a National Guard Division in Arizona Arizona

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, Colorado Colorado

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, New Mexico New Mexico

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, and Oklahoma Oklahoma

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), activated and ordered into federal service for one year to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana prior to serving in World War II World War II

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.

1960   December 12 — The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a Federal Court ruling that Louisiana's anti-integration laws are unconstitutional.

1991   David Duke, a white supremacist running as a Republican Republican Party (United States)

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, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin.

1992   Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, mistakes the address of a party and is shot after knocking on the wrong door in Baton Rouge,Louisiana. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking outrage in Japan Japan

is an island country [i] in East Asia [i]. ... 

.

2005   At least 1,836 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina

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 strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi Mississippi

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 and Alabama Alabama

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 coastal areas.

2005   St. Tammany Parish Schools reopen in Louisiana, just over a month after Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina

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 closed them.