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A Louisiana Legacy
Photo by Jim Nix / Nomadic Pursuits
1519 Alonso Alvarez de Pineda led an expedition along the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico and discovered the mouth of a great river which may have been the Mississippi
1519 Bourbon Spain
1682 The French explorer Sieur de La Salle, the first to descend the Mississippi to its mouth, took possession of the country and named it for the monarch of France, Louis XIV.
1762 By the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau, France ceded its unprofitable and territories west of the Mississippi to Spain.
Photo by joseph a
1763 By the Peace of Paris Britain acquired from France its Louisiana territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Isle of Orleans. Spain ceded to Britain its territories of East and West Florida.
1769 Spanish Governor Alejandro O'Reilly
gained
control of Louisiana for Spain.
1800 Spain officially returned the Louisiana territory West of the Mississippi to France by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso
1803 The United States purchased from Napoleon the territory of Louisiana for $15,000,000
1810 The American citizens of Spain's West Florida Territory
declared the area a Republic
