Louisiana has one of the most colorful histories of any of the 50 states in the union. Listed below is a timeline that gives significant events in Louisiana history and significant events in the lives of our Louisiana ancestors.
1698 - First white explorers & settlers arrive in Louisiana from France
1718 - New Orleans founded, in 1727, Ursaline nuns arrived to found hospitals and schools
1721 - Swiss, German and Alsatian settlers arrive, recruited by John Law's company of the West. At one time, there were more Germans than French settlers in Louisiana. They settled upriver from New Orleans along the Côte des Allemands (German Coast.)
1741 - Antoine Verloin deGruy arrived in thee Louisiana territory
1755
- British started deporting French Canaadian settlers (Acadians) from Nova Scotia
- about 2500 made it to Louisiana 1762 - France transferred the
Louisiana territory to Spain. Click here for a Map of New Orleans in
1764. 1770's - More German settlers
arrived in Louisiana 1779
- Christoval Rodriguez, his wife and three sons arrive in Louisiana aboard the
La Santa Paz, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands 1790's
- Many whites and free blacks arrive frrom the West Indies 1800 - Spain
ceded Louisiana back to France 1800 -
Civil Record, St Charles Parish, Dec 13, "Joseph Verloin DeGruÿs
declares... that he has sold to his slave Catin her freedom for 500 piastres." 1803 - France sold Louisiana to the US for $15
million 1803 - Antonio Rodriguez
claims a tract of land on the left bank of the Bayou LaFourche, 3 arpents in
front and forty in depth. 1812 - Statehood 1815 - Battle of New Orleans
1818 - Antoine Bel marries Marie Azalie Boutté in St.
Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. 1838 - First Mardi
Gras held in New Orleans 1840 - New Orleans was the 4th largest city in the US
& ranked 2nd to New York busiest port 1861 - Louisiana joins the
Confederacy 1862 - New Orleans captured by Union troops - Union troops
controlled the entire south east portion of the state 1862
- John Coroy enlisted in the Union Army at New Orleans into Co. H, 1st Regiment,
Louisiana Infantry for 3 years.
1865 - E.D. Melancon serves as coroner for Ascension Parish 1868 - Louisiana
re-entered the Union 1877 - Federal troops withdraw from Louisiana
1894 - Stella Marie Coroy is born in Ascension Parish,
Louisiana
