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Louis Armstrong Timeline

  • Louis Armstrong was born

    Louis Armstrong was born
    Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans Louisinana, to Mayann, and Willie Armstrong.
  • Louis Armstrong gets send to the Waif's home

    Louis Armstrong gets send to the Waif's home
    On New Year's eve Louis has a .38 calibrer full with blanks that he discovered from his mother's latest boyfriennd
  • In the Waif's home

    In the Waif's home
    While he is in the Waif's home he gets put on the Colored Waif's home band for boys, he thre meets hi band director , Peter Davis, and he performs on the streets with his band for almost two years.
    His first instument was his voice then he gets put in the percussion section and he finally learns how to play the cornet by him self and him self only becasue the band director doesn't want to boder to teach how to play the cornet.
  • Louis performs all over New Orleans

    Louis performs all over New Orleans
    Louis performs in canal street a important street but it was divided for black side and the white side, and he also tarts his porfesionall carrer in stroyville
  • Louis Armstrong meets Joe Oliver

    Louis Armstrong meets Joe Oliver
    In 1916 Louis Armstrong meets Joe Oliver, one of the most finest trompet players in New Orleans in that time. Louis doesn't realise it but Joe Oliver becomes his mentor and teacher. He also plays all over New Orleans with the band of Honky Tonks made by Joe Oliver, but he has to feed himself and his familly so he sells newspaper and delivers coal. Every day Louis delivers tons of coal per day
  • Joe and Louis Join the Kid Ory's Orchestra.

    Joe and Louis Join the Kid Ory's Orchestra.
    Joe Oliver accepts a high spot on this Orchestra and he moves to Chicago Ilinois and takes Louis with him.
  • Louis gets married.

    Louis gets married.
    Louis Armstrong gets married to Daisy Parker.
  • Louis joins the Fate Marble´s Orchestra

    Louis joins the Fate Marble´s Orchestra
    In 1919 Louis for the firts time of his life left New Orleans to play all over the Mississipi River
  • Louis joins Oliver´s band in Chicago

    Louis joins Oliver´s band in Chicago
    Louis moves to Chicago alone because he divorces his wife. He moves to Chicago becasue the band he is on moves to Chicago Ilinois.
  • Louis first recording in Chicago

    Louis first recording in Chicago
    Louis recorded his first music played in Chicago at Gennett studios Richmond, Indiana, as a maember of King Oliver (Joe Oliver) band.
  • Louis has a second wife

    Louis has a second wife
    Louis marries Lilian Hardin a good piano player but she makes him quit Joe Oliver´s band, and moves to New York to join Fletcher Orchestra in Ney York City
  • Louis makes hot five

    Louis makes hot five
    Louis makes his first recording in his band in New York city.
  • Louis record West End Blues

    Louis record West End Blues
    Louis preforms with Ersike with the hot five and hot seven cince may 1927 and he makes the album after that
  • Louis a star in bordway in hot chocolate.

    Louis a star in bordway in hot chocolate.
    Louis performs at coney inn with Carrol Dickeson Orchestra and Tommy Rockwell becomes Louis manager and record Ain´t misbehavin and I can´t give you anything but Love.
  • First European trip

    First European trip
    Louis perofroms all over europe and separates from Lil her wife and has a new manager, Johnny Collins that went against rockwells options
  • Louis performs through the United states and London

    Louis performs through the United states and London
    Louis performs in Nebraska, Indiana, Ililinois, and Kentucky, and then he retrns to London and more than ten thousand people came to watch him.
  • Louis singes managment with Joe Glaser

    Louis singes managment with Joe Glaser
    Joe Glaser is Louis manager until his death in 1969
  • Louis third wife

    Louis third wife
    In 1938 Louis divorses Lil and it pases a few months and marries Alpha Smith
  • Louis performs in the Us and Canada

    Louis performs in the Us and Canada
    Louis performs in Alabama, Canada, Mississipi, Georgia, Illinios, South Carolina and Florida.
  • Louis fourth wife

    Louis fourth wife
    Louis divorces Alpha Smith and Marries Lucille Wilson
  • Louis house in New York city

    Louis house in New York city
    Lucille buys a house in queens, corona, New Yorck city, New York, and Lucy and Louis lived there for the remainder of their lifes
  • Tours all around the world

    Tours all around the world
    Louis does a world tour to the Hawaii Islands, Canda,Itally Switcherland, Scandivadia, North Africa adn Belguim.
  • Loid comes a good ambassador for the U.S Deparment, and Pepsi Cola

    Loid comes a good ambassador for the U.S Deparment, and Pepsi Cola
    Louis does a really important trip to Africa this were the states or cities that he went with Cameroon, the Belgian Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone
  • The record Hello Dolly.

    The record Hello Dolly.
    Hello Dolly becomes the U.S number one hit back then.
  • The sadest event

    The sadest event
    Two days after his birthday of turning 70, Louis Armstrong was cracked into pieces and by good he was sent to heaven, on July 8 more than 30,000 mourners solemnly file past his casket at the Seventh Regiment Armory.