Enlightenment · North America · Exploration
1682
La Salle Claims Louisiana
April 9, 1682
The French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, reached the mouth of the Mississippi and planted a cross and a column claiming the entire drainage basin for Louis XIV. He named it La Louisiane. France now claimed, on paper, half of North America, though it had few people to enforce the claim.
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Also in 1682 (4 other events on record)
- Peter the Great Becomes Tsar · Europe · Politics
- Louis XIV Moves to Versailles · Europe · Politics
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- Kangxi Emperor's Sacred Edict · East Asia · Politics
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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