1730 Plan & Elevation of the New Orleans prison
1732 Barracks plans
Slave and Chickasaw insurrection planned; 4 men and a woman captured. Men broken on wheel, heads stuck on posts, woman hanged.
1769 Don Alexander O'Reilly establishes Spanish control. Inventory of Government Buildings see pp. 3, 20, 21
1771 Two enslaved men indicted for murder of a planter. Under torture, they implicate each other. Executed, body left on display. Accomplices lashed, ears removed, tarred and feathered.
1791 11 people arrested near Pointe Coupee for conspiracy to revolt.
1795 Revolt planning discovered at Pointe Coupee. Planters and soldiers mustered to investigate and try. 23-26 were hanged, 31 imprisoned. The heads of the executed were mounted around the state. The History of Louisiana, from the Earliest Period By François-Xavier Martin, William Wirt Howe, John Francis Condon · 1882. see p171
1799 Cabildo construction complete
Dec 17 Decree of Pierre Clément Laussat upholding the Code Noir.
1804 Pointe Coupee revolt
1805 Gendarmerie created by city council to perform as a police force, with emphasis on slave control. Noted for hierarchy, uniforms, pistols, swords. Half of force is mounted.
1806 February, Gendarmerie replaced by City Guard, with constables and no horses.
1807 Official letter from Mayor John Watkins to the members of the City Council of New Orleans.
1808 Lamplighter-watchmen instituted.
1809 December, back to city guard.
1811 Slave insurrection The History of Louisiana,From the Earliest Period see p. 301
1816 Bill and pay orders for expenses of the City Guard of New Orleans during October
Bill and pay order for expenses of the City Guard of New Orleans during November
1837 Orleans Parish Prison completed, built on the square of land bounded by Orleans, St. Ann, Marais, and Treme Streets.
1836 Demilitarization begins; city split into three municipalities; round the clock policing with regular beat patrols; Irish influence grows.
1852 City reunified; more police are foreign born, causes dissatisfaction among the public; white percentage of city increases, decreasing need for militarized police. Police arm themselves with revolvers.
1855 Number of police has decreased to point where not all of city can be patrolled. Police became politically partisan.
1866 The Metropolitan Police District created
1870 the Metropolitan Police get new badges, each badge has a unique number
1874 The Battle of Liberty Place
1876 Police force cut to around 350; it was smaller than the 1860 force, but the population had doubled.
1877 the Metropolitan Police dismantled
1893 new courthouse and prison built on square of land bounded by Gravier, Basin, Tulane, and Franklin.
1904 new House of Detention completed on square of land bounded by Gravier, South White, Tulane, and Broad.
