{"slug": "acadians", "label": "Acadians", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadians", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q415054", "qid": "Q415054", "description": "descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia", "entries": 10, "years": 8, "span": [1710, 1843], "span_label": ["1710 CE", "1843 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Acadian"], "related": [{"slug": "nova-scotia", "label": "Nova Scotia", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "new-brunswick", "label": "New Brunswick", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "new-england", "label": "New England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mississippi-river", "label": "Mississippi River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "st-louis", "label": "St. Louis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "antonio-de-ulloa", "label": "Antonio de Ulloa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "province-of-north-carolina", "label": "Province of North Carolina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "halifax-nova-scotia", "label": "Halifax, Nova Scotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "province-of-new-york", "label": "Province of New York", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "colony-of-virginia", "label": "Colony of Virginia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "province-of-massachusetts-bay", "label": "Province of Massachusetts Bay", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1710, "year_label": "1710 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 5", "text": "October 5 – October 13 - British forces under Francis Nicholson conduct the successful Siege of Port Royal against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy at the Acadian capital, Port Royal, marking the start of British control of what became Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358049105#October–December", "title": "1710", "revid": 1358049105, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1750, "year_label": "1750 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – The Acadian settlement in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, is burnt by the French army, and the population is forcibly relocated, after France and Great Britain agree that the Missaguash River should be the new boundary between peninsular British Nova Scotia and the mainland remnant of French Acadia (now New Brunswick).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349828876#April–June", "title": "1750", "revid": 1349828876, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The decision to deport the Acadians is made, during meetings of the Nova Scotia Council meeting in Halifax. From September 1755-June 1763, the vast majority of Acadians are deported to one of the following British Colonies in America: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Contrary to popular belief, no Acadians are sent to Louisiana. Those sent to Virginia are refused and then sent on to Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton and Penryn in England. In 1758 the Fortress of Louisbourg falls and all of the civilian population of Isle Royal (Cape Breton Island) and Isle St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) are repatriated to France. Among them were several thousand Acadians, who had escaped the deportation by fleeing into those areas. Very few Acadians successfully escape the deportation and do so only by fleeing into some of the northern sections of present day New Brunswick. The event inspires Longfellow to write the epic poem Evangeline.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360194188#July–September", "title": "1755", "revid": 1360194188, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1758, "year_label": "1758 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – The ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, with the loss of over 360 lives, while deporting Acadians from Prince Edward Island to France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366206062#October–December", "title": "1758", "revid": 1366206062, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1760, "year_label": "1760 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – Expulsion of the Acadians: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia taken from the Acadians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358844484#April–June", "title": "1760", "revid": 1358844484, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1764, "year_label": "1764 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Conditional repatriation of the Acadians in Canada, French colonists who took up arms against the British during the war, is approved by order of King George III on advice of the Privy Council. The Council offers settlement to any Acadians willing to take an oath of allegiance to the British Crown and that those living in New Brunswick are to \"be allowed to settle in Nova Scotia, but that they should be dispersed in small numbers in various localities.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363539304#July–September", "title": "1764", "revid": 1363539304, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1767, "year_label": "1767 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "In the fall of 1767, the Gueguen, Arseneau, Hébert and Bourg families receive the first land grant conveyed to Acadians after the Expulsion. In November, Cocagne becomes the first Acadian community established with official permission from the British Crown.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358739476#Events", "title": "1767 in Canada", "revid": 1358739476, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1767, "year_label": "1767 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 14", "text": "March 14 – Antonio de Ulloa, the Colonial Governor of Spanish Louisiana (Luisiana), dispatches Captain Francisco Ríu y Morales up the Mississippi River to establish two forts, one at San Luis (now St. Louis, Missouri) and to set up a colony for displaced French-speaking Acadians and protect shipping on the river.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587024#January–March", "title": "1767", "revid": 1365587024, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1843, "year_label": "1843 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Abbeville, Louisiana is founded by descendants of Acadians from Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332607829#Undated", "title": "1843 in the United States", "revid": 1332607829, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1843, "year_label": "1843 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – Père Antoine Désiré Mégret, a Capuchin missionary, purchases the land that will become Abbeville, Louisiana for $900, a town founded by descendants of Acadians from Nova Scotia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366016136#July–September", "title": "1843", "revid": 1366016136, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}