{"slug": "louisiana-new-france", "label": "Louisiana (New France)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_%28New_France%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q658054", "qid": "Q658054", "description": "district of New France", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [1682, 1765], "span_label": ["1682 CE", "1765 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mobile-alabama", "label": "Mobile, Alabama", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "february", "label": "February", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-france", "label": "New France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-orleans", "label": "New Orleans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mississippi-river", "label": "Mississippi River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "louis-xv", "label": "Louis XV", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-iii-of-spain", "label": "Charles III of Spain", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1682, "year_label": "1682 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – At the mouth of the Mississippi River, near modern Venice, Louisiana, Robert de La Salle buries an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory as La Louisiane for France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560956#April–June", "title": "1682", "revid": 1369560956, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1704, "year_label": "1704 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February", "text": "February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of Louisiana (New France), Mobile, Alabama.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358992532#January–March", "title": "1704", "revid": 1358992532, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February", "text": "February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated one more time with Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisiana, Mobile, Alabama, before Mobile is moved 27 miles (43 km) down the Mobile River to Mobile Bay in 1711.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361817608#January–March", "title": "1709", "revid": 1361817608, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 – In Louisiana (New France), Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville's brother Serigny arrives on a French man-of-war, bringing news that war had been declared between France and Spain (since December 1718).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365415998#April–June", "title": "1719", "revid": 1365415998, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – In Louisiana (New France), Bienville, from Mobile, captures Pensacola, but Pensacola is later recaptured by the Spanish, and again re-taken by Bienville.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365415998#April–June", "title": "1719", "revid": 1365415998, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "February 4", "text": "February 4 – Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, Director-general of the Colony of Louisiana (d. 1765)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372345509#Births", "title": "1726", "revid": 1372345509, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – Seventeen Ursuline Sisters from France land in New Orleans, in the Louisiana territory of New France, after a journey that began on February 22. 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