| 1763 |
- End of the French and Indian War (Seven Years War).
French holdings east of the Mississippi River given
to England; Louisiana Territory was ceded to Spain.
Many French soldiers stayed on and swore allegiance
to Spain.
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| 1766 |
- Spain takes formal control of Louisiana,
including Arkansas Post.
- The first Spanish census of Louisiana
lists the population of Arkansas Post as fifty, including
ten slaves.
|
| 1767 |
- British captain Philip Pittman visits the Post while
making a survey of the military establishments along
the Mississippi River.
|
| 1768 |
- A census of the habitants, women, children and slaves
at Arkansas Post lists a total of 114, including 31 slaves.
|
| 1769 |
- The commandant required that all soldiers and civilians
living at the Post take an oath of Allegiance to the
Spanish King.
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| 1770s |
- Spanish rule in the area of Arkansas
Post was plagued with difficulties as English traders
attempt to convince
the Quapaw that the Spanish were not a true friend of
the Tribe.
- The Osage tribe begins to increasingly clash with Spanish
authorities and attack French hunters operating along
the rivers.
- Flooding at the site of Arkansas Post
continues to be a problem, prompting on Spanish commander
to refer
to Arkansas Post as "the most disagreeable Hole
in the Universe."
- Spanish authorities view the hunters operating in the
area of Arkansas Post as disreputable, stating that
the Arkansas River was an "asylum of the most wicked persons without doubt, in
all the Indies."
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| 1771 |
-
The first permanent Spanish commandant, Fernando de Leyba,
takes charge at Arkansas Post. Previous commandants
under Spanish rule had been French officers in the
employment of Spain.
|
| 1772 |
- A delegation of Quapaw Indians visit the Governor in
New Orleans to complain about Comandant Leyba.
|
| 1775 |
- Concordia, an English settlement on the east bank of
the Mississippi River is established. Traders from Concordia
continued to encourage the Quapaws against Spanish rule.
|
| 1779 |
- Arkansas
Post moved upriver to the Ecore Rouge site. This is
the final move of the Post.
- Spain joins the Revolutionary War on the American
Patriots and France against England.
|
| 1780 |
- British and Spanish forces clash along
the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi River.
|
| 1781 |
- James Colbert, an Englishman living with the Chickasaw
Indians, begins operating against the Spanish along the
Mississippi River.
|
| 1783 |
- A band of English trappers
and Chickasaws led by James Colbert attacked Fort
Carlos III because Spain had allied
herself to the rebels in the American Revolution. This
is Arkansas’ only Revolutionary War engagement.
- The Revolutionary War comes to an end with the Treaty
of Paris.
|
| 1785 |
- The Governor of Louisiana holds a
council of Caddo and Osage Indians in New Orleans in
an attempt to forge
a peace between the two groups. This peace is short lived,
and the Osage continue to attack hunting parties operating
along the Arkansas River.
|
| 1786 |
- Spanish authorities attempt to close the Mississippi
River to American Commerce.
|
| 1789 |
- Osage raids against hunters become
so severe that twenty French hunters draw up a petition
to go to war against
the Osage. In response, the Governor unsuccessfully attempts
to halt all commerce with the Osage.
|
| 1790s |
- Expanding American settlement becomes a significant
threat to the Spanish in Louisiana and West Florida.
|
| 1791 |
- A census taken this year shows the
population of Arkansas Post as 151, including 37 slaves.
|
| 1793 |
- A census taken this year lists the
population of Arkansas Post as 220, including 49 slaves.
|
| 1794 |
- A census taken this year lists the population of Arkansas
Post as 336, including 53 slaves.
|
| 1795 |
- The Pickney Treay with Spain allows Americans free
navigation of the Mississippi River.
|
| 1796 |
- A census taken this year lists the
population of Arkansas Post as 324, including 42 slaves.
|
| 1798 |
- A Spanish census records that 393
people reside in the District of Arkansas, including
56 slaves.
|
| 1800 |
- Arkansas Post and all of colonial
Louisiana became a possession of Napoleon’s
France through a provision of the secret treaty of
San Il Defonso
|
| 1803 |
- “Louisiana Purchase” -
United States buys Louisiana Territory. Spanish authorities
remain in control
of Arkansas Post until the spring of 1804.
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