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The Founding of Louisiana La Salle claimed the entire Mississippi River Valley for France. After 1717, French settlers began to move to farm land along the southern end of the Mississippi River. In 1722, the town of New Orleans became the capital city of the Louisiana territory or New France.
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Mardi GrasSince 1699, when Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville celebrated his arrival at the mouth of the Mississippi on Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras has been integrally linked to Louisiana's cultural heritage.
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King Louis XV King Louis XV
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The Louisiana Purchase On April 30, 1803 the nation of France sold 828,000 square miles (2,144,510 square km) of land west of the Mississippi River to the young United States of America in a treaty commonly known as the Louisiana Purchase.' >Louisiana Purchase</a>On April 30, 1803 the nation of France sold 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River to the young United States of America in a treaty commonly known as the Louisiana Purchase.
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Louisiana became 18th State.
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Yellow fever and choloera epidemic killed more than 5,000 people in New Orleans
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Louisiana Music The music of Louisiana can be divided into four general regions. Southwest Louisiana, (Lake Charles area), Southern Louisiana, west of New Orleans (Opelousas and Lafayette; often called Acadiana) the southeast, the region in and around Greater New Orleans has a unique musical heritage tied to Dixieland jazz, blues and Afro-Caribbean rhythms. The northern portion of the state starting at Baton Rouge and reaching Shreveport shares the similarities with the rest of the US South.
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Louisiana readmitted to Union; the state lottery was established
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Jazz Music Jazz became popular in Louisiana around the late 1800s and the early 1900s
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First oil flow discovered at Jennings
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Huey Long Huey Long was assassinated on the steps of the state capitol.
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Crawfish Festival The Louisiana Crawfish Festival began in 1960 as a spin-off of the Breaux Bridge Centennial Celebration.
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The Green Bay Packers opened the Super Bowl series by defeating the AFL champion Chiefs.
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Natural Gas Natural-gas production in the U.S. peaked in the early 1970s.
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Hurricane Katrina struck southeastern Louisiana, damaged levees flooded New Orleans, more than 1,500 people killed, over two million homeless; Hurricane Rita caused major flooding in New Orleans
