To understand Creole chronology you must understand the meaning of the culture. Culture is a gift passed from one generation to another. It is the total of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human works and thought characteristic of a community. It is an enrichment which required over 250 years of cultivation by sweat, tears, hardships, prayers, trial and error to develop an eminent society known as the "Creoles of Louisiana".

1492 - Christopher Columbus landed at Hispaniola, presently Haiti and the Dominican Republic. There were over three million Indians living on Hispaniola. The Spaniards were in search of gold and the Indians were not accustom to laboring work and didn't produce their quotas of gold. Therefore, in

1502 - African slaves who had been Christianized were brought from Seville, Spain to Hispaniola to dig for gold-Spaniards, Indians and Africans interbred.

The term Creole is a Latin or Spanish word that means "to create".

1590 - The term Creole was first introduced in Hispaniola by a Catholic priest, Father de Acosta, who came to realize that the new born babies in Hispani