18th Century Timeline (Louisiana Revolution)

1709

 * January 5: The temperature in London drops to -15 °C, the lowest ever recorded in Europe, marking the beginning of the Great Frost.
 * December 27: French officials estimate that nearly 500,000 died from famine in 1709.

1710

 * January 14: A colonist in Louisiana writes the French government, telling of milder temperatures and a better harvest. Many people begin moving to Louisiana upon hearing this news.
 * March 2: 60,000 colonists have arrived in New Orleans by this time, almost a quarter of the original voyagers having perished on their journey.

1750

 * January 1: Louisiana reports that its population has grown to approximately 1,300,000.

1754

 * May 28: The Battle of Jumonville Glen ends in British victory and begins the Fourth Intercontinental War, or the American theater of the Seven Years' War.
 * June 1: Louis XV decrees that an army must be conscripted from the Louisiana colony and sends General Chevalier de Lévis and General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm to fight the war. The rest of the war's commanders come from the Louisianan army.
 * July 3: An army of Louisianans and their Native American allies attack Fort Necessity and take George Washington prisoner after a decisive victory.

1755

 * June 7: The Battle of Fort Duquesne ends in a brutal British defeat in which General Braddock is killed.
 * June 14: The Battle of Fort Beauséjour ends in British victory.

1758

 * September 14: The British capture Fort Duquesne, giving them total control of the Ohio valley.
 * September 19: Louisburg falls to the British after a siege.

1759

 * February 11: The Battle of Quebec ends in a British victory, but claims the life of a prominent British commander.
 * June 29: The British capture Fort Niagara.

1760

 * September 7: The British refuse a peace negotiation offered by Marquis de Vaudreuil and the siege of Montreal begins.

1761

 * January 23: The British capture Montreal, but the French refuse to surrender.

1762

 * April 12: The French capture Newfoundland in one of the greatest strategic victories of the war.
 * October 22: The Battle of Signal Hill ends in the French losing Newfoundland and finally surrendering later that day.

1763

 * February 10: The Treaty of Paris is signed, transferring control of Louisiana to Spain and New France to Britain.
 * February 15: The Treaty of Hubertusburg ends the European Theater of the Seven Years' War.
 * March 1: The remaining Louisiana armies concentrate their forces on the Spanish, who have begun entering the territory, after declaring independence from Spain.
 * April 2: The Louisianans claim victory in the Battle of El Dorado, pushing the Spanish out of the southeastern area of Louisiana, beginning the War of Louisianan Independence.
 * July 1: Marquis de Vaudreuil is crowned King of Louisiana.

1770

 * August 9: Louisiana crushes the military of New Spain in the Battle of Cortez in Spanish territory, marking the end of the Louisianan Revolution.

1776

 * July 4: The Thirteen Colonies declare their independence from Britain.
 * November 25: The British devastate the colonial militia of the United States at the Battle of Boston, crushing the rebellion.