Historedia
Person

Antonio de Ulloa

Events
2
Episodes
5
Years
1765–1768

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Antonio de Ulloa, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Arrival of Antonio de Ulloa in New Orleans

    1765–1768

    Role: First Spanish governor of Louisiana; Spanish Navy officer

    1. May 1765 · Spanish Crown appointmentAppointment as first governor of Spanish Louisiana

      The Spanish Crown named Ulloa the first governor of Spanish Louisiana in May 1765, after the Seven Years' War.

    2. 5 March 1766 · New Orleans, major city and port of LouisianaArrival in New Orleans

      Ulloa reached New Orleans on 5 March 1766 as the first governor of Spanish Louisiana.

    3. 28 October 1768 – 1768 · New OrleansResistance and expulsion during the Rebellion of 1768

      French Creoles of New Orleans resisted Ulloa's rule and expelled him during the Rebellion of 1768.

  2. Spanish Expedition to Establish St. Louis

    1766–1767

    Role: Spanish Navy officer and first governor of Spanish Louisiana from 1766

    1. 5 March 1766 · New OrleansUlloa arrives in New Orleans as governor

      Appointed in May 1765, Spanish Navy officer Antonio de Ulloa reached New Orleans on 5 March 1766 as the first governor of Spanish Louisiana.

    2. 1767 (per uncorroborated legacy row; no retrieved passage dates the claimed dispatch) · San Luis (St. Louis) on the Mississippi River, as claimed in the legacy rowSpanish expedition to establish St. Louis

      A legacy record holds that Governor Ulloa dispatched Captain Francisco Ríu y Morales in 1767 to build forts and settle Acadians, but no retrieved passage corroborates this.

Sources

  1. Antonio de Ulloa Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29