{"slug": "louisiana", "label": "Louisiana", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1588", "qid": "Q1588", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 27, "years": 22, "span": [-1299, 2020], "span_label": ["1300 BCE", "2020 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 7}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "florida", "label": "Florida", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "new-orleans", "label": "New Orleans", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "alabama", "label": "Alabama", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "mississippi", "label": "Mississippi", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "acadia", "label": "Acadia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aaron-burr", "label": "Aaron Burr", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "u-s-state", "label": "U.S. state", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "antonio-de-ulloa", "label": "Antonio de Ulloa", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mississippi-river", "label": "Mississippi River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "west-indies", "label": "West Indies", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -1299, "year_label": "1300 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "c. 1300 BC—Some people of the \"Eastern Woodlands\" begin to build massive earthworks, mounds of earth and stone. Poverty Point, Louisiana is the earliest one.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367586442#Events_and_trends", "title": "1300s BC (decade)", "revid": 1367586442, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Great Expulsion begins. English Expulsion of the French Acadians—who lived and intermarried with Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Mi'kmaqs (many of whom were also taken). Forcibly loaded into ships and deposited randomly along the southern (now American) coasts, many (probably 1/3 to 1/2) died. Some are ancestors of the Cajuns of Louisiana, and a few made their ways back home. Acadians were idealists, hostile to King and Church authority, who lived in peace with the Mi'kmaqs. Neither the French rulers nor the English wanted them.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349953912#Events", "title": "1755 in Canada", "revid": 1349953912, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1762, "year_label": "1762 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – According to the preliminaries of peace, signed at Fontainebleau, England is to have, with certain West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, to the Mississippi River (without New Orleans), Canada, Acadia, Cape Breton Island and its dependencies, and the fisheries, subject to certain French interests. Spain is to have New Orleans and Louisiana, west of the Mississippi, with an undetermined Western boundary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954203#Events", "title": "1762 in Canada", "revid": 1349954203, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1768, "year_label": "1768 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – French colonists in Louisiana refuse to accept the colony's acquisition by Spain and begin an uprising that forces Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa to flee.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369390957#October–December", "title": "1768", "revid": 1369390957, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1768, "year_label": "1768 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 29", "text": "29 October – French colonists in Louisiana refuse to accept the colony's acquisition by Spain and begin an uprising that forces Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa to flee", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738664#Events", "title": "1768 in France", "revid": 1353738664, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1807, "year_label": "1807 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Burr conspiracy: Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested on charges of treason. He is accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico to become part of an independent republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369806137#Events", "title": "1807 in the United States", "revid": 1369806137, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1807, "year_label": "1807 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico, to become part of an independent republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362733939#July–September", "title": "1807", "revid": 1362733939, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1811, "year_label": "1811 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361375672#January–March", "title": "1811", "revid": 1361375672, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1811, "year_label": "1811 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369632421#Events", "title": "1811 in the United States", "revid": 1369632421, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 30", "text": "April 30 – Louisiana is admitted as the 18th U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364673712#April–June", "title": "1812", "revid": 1364673712, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the territory previously known by that name is renamed the Missouri Territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364673712#April–June", "title": "1812", "revid": 1364673712, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 7", "text": "August 7 – 130 Filibusters of the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition cross from Louisiana into Spanish Texas, soon after they capture the town of Nacogdoches.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369643299#July–September", "title": "1812 in the United States", "revid": 1369643299, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1822, "year_label": "1822 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1–3 – U.S. House of Representatives elections begin in Louisiana and continue until the last elections are held in North Carolina on August 14, 1823.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322982140#Events", "title": "1822 in the United States", "revid": 1322982140, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1848, "year_label": "1848 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – 1848 United States presidential election: Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan, in the first U.S. presidential election held in every state on the same day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370038858#October–December", "title": "1848", "revid": 1370038858, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1851, "year_label": "1851 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 3", "text": "August 3 – The filibustering Lopez Expedition sails from New Orleans, Louisiana heading to seize Spanish-ruled Cuba.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358777790#July–September", "title": "1851", "revid": 1358777790, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 4", "text": "May 4 – American Civil War: Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, commanding all Confederate forces in Alabama, Mississippi, and eastern Louisiana, surrenders his forces to Union General Edward Canby at Citronelle, Alabama, effectively ending all Confederate resistance east of the Mississippi River.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#May", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1872, "year_label": "1872 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American to govern a U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371307490#December", "title": "1872", "revid": 1371307490, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 30", "text": "August 30 – Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator (assassinated 1935)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#July–September", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Births › July–September"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – The French Opera House in New Orleans, Louisiana is destroyed by fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#December", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1935, "year_label": "1935 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Carl Weiss fatally wounds Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (\"The Kingfish\"), in a shooting at the Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364797431#July–September", "title": "1935 in the United States", "revid": 1364797431, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division (previously a National Guard Division in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma), is activated and ordered into federal service for one year, to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana, prior to serving in WWII.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#September", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 17", "text": "September 17–21 – The 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana causes widespread damage, and kills 50 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#September", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "February 21", "text": "February 21 – Between February 21 and 22, an outbreak of nineteen tornadoes rages across the Mississippi Delta in Mississippi and Louisiana, killing 123 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#February", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24–28 – Hurricane Andrew hits south Florida and Louisiana and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#August", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 14", "text": "September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372652846#September", "title": "2002", "revid": 1372652846, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2005, "year_label": "2005 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 29", "text": "August 29– At least 1,836 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes coastal areas from Louisiana to Alabama, and travels up the entire state of Mississippi (flooding coast 31 ft), affecting most of eastern North America. Katrina becomes the costliest hurricane in U.S. history with $108 billion in damages. The New Orleans Saints football team will play their entire 2005 season on the road due to the effects of the hurricane.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371058404#August", "title": "2005 in the United States", "revid": 1371058404, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 – Hurricane Laura makes landfall in Lake Charles, Louisiana with winds of 150 mph, making it the strongest hurricane to ever strike the state in terms of windspeed, tied with the 1856 Last Island Hurricane.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#August", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › August"}}]}