The Twelfth Night Revelers (TNR), founded in 1870, is a New Orleans, Louisiana, Carnival Krewe.

[1] In 1870 Sidney Smith, the son of a Striker from Mobile,Alabama, organized the Twelfth Night Revelers in New Orleans,[2] nearly 30 years after the Strikers Independent Society was formed in Mobile, Alabama, and 13 years after the Mistick Krewe in 1857.

[3][4][5][6][7] From its inauguration in 1870, the Twelfth Night Revelers introduced the Twelfth Night Cake or King Cake cut by the leader, the Lord of Misrule.

Also that year a Queen was chosen and with her a royal court of young ladies were presented as debutants.

[5][1][4] The introduction of political satire with its 1873 parade, titled "The World of Audubon."