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Events on Thursday 30 April 1812 1
1812Louisiana admitted to the UnionLouisiana becomes the eighteenth US stateOn 30 April 1812 Louisiana was admitted as the eighteenth state of the United States, the first to be carved from the Louisiana Purchase territory. Its admission brought French and Spanish colonial legal traditions into the American union. New Orleans became the state's largest city and a key Gulf Coast port.