Short answers, pulled from the story.
New Orleans was founded in the spring of 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. The settlement was established on land traditionally inhabited by the Chitimacha people and named after Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, the regent of France.
The German Coast rebellion was the largest slave rebellion in US history and occurred from January 8 to 11, 1811. About 500 enslaved Africans in St. Charles and St. John the Baptist parishes rose up against their enslavers before being controlled by the local militia.
Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the 29th of August 2005, causing catastrophic failure of the federally designed and built levees. More than 1,500 people were recorded as having died in Louisiana, with most deaths occurring in New Orleans.
P.B.S. Pinchback briefly served as Louisiana's Republican governor in 1872, becoming the first U.S. governor of African descent. He held office during the Reconstruction era when Louisiana was readmitted to the Union in 1868.
The last major French language newspaper, L'Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans, ceased publication on the 27th of December 1923 after 96 years. This marked the end of an era for French usage in the city, although some elderly Creole women continued to speak the language as late as 1945.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1896 that separate but equal accommodations were constitutional, effectively upholding Jim Crow measures. This decision contributed to the period known as the nadir of race relations in the United States and led to underfunded African-American public schools and facilities across the South.