HISTORY The Origin of Mardi Gras

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🤔 Mardi Gras was created four years earlier in New Orleans first before Mobile..it got bigger first in Mobile and became an anual event there but was not created there thats a misconception.
Mobile is not the originator..First Mardi Gras in Mobile was 1703
The first American Mardi Gras took place on March 3, 1699, when French explorers Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville and Sieur de Bienville landed near present-day New Orleans,  Louisiana. They held a small celebration and dubbed their landing spot Point du Mardi Gras. (Some argue the port city of Mobile, Alabama was actually the first to observe the event.)

In the decades that followed, New Orleans and other French settlements began marking the holiday with street parties, masked balls and lavish dinners. When the Spanish took control of New Orleans, however, they abolished these rowdy rituals, and the bans remained in force until Louisiana became a U.S