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− | + | '''1515''' -- Ponce de Leon 'discovered' Florida | |
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− | + | '''1516''' -- Miruelos MAY have entered Pensacola Bay | |
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− | + | '''1525''' -- Panfilo de Narveaz explored Florida | |
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− | + | '''1539''' -- Hernando de Soto explored Florida | |
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− | + | '''1559''' -- 06/11/1559 - Members of Luna's expedition embarked at Vera Cruz, Mexico, for their journey to establish Pensacola | |
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− | + | '''1559''' -- 08/14/1559 - Luna's expedition entered Pensacola Bay | |
− | + | '''1559''' -- 08/19/1559 - A hurricane struck Pensacola Bay, virtually destroying Luna's fleet | |
− | + | '''1561''' -- 03/16/1561 - Villafane arriveed at Pensacola for relief for Luna's expedition after the hurricane of 1559 | |
− | + | '''1561''' -- 04/09/1561 - Villifane became the governor of Florida | |
− | + | '''1565''' -- St. Augustine, on Florida's East Coast, was founded by the Spanish | |
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− | + | == 1600's == | |
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− | + | '''1682''' -- 04/06/1682 - La Salle claimed Louisiana for France | |
− | + | '''1684''' -- Sieur de la Salle descended the Mississippi River an made a failed attempt to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi | |
− | + | '''1686''' -- 02/06/1686 - An expedition under the command of Juan Enriques Barroto (Juan Jordan Reina) entered Pensacola Bay | |
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+ | '''1692''' -- 06/26/1892 - Conde de Galve, viceroy of Mexico, was given instructions by the Spanish King to explore the gulf coast | ||
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+ | '''1693''' -- 04/07/1693 - Admiral Andres de Pez's expedition entered Pensacola Bay | ||
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+ | '''1694''' -- 06/13/1694 - The King of Spain (Charles II??) gave the go ahead to settle Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1698''' -- 11/06/1698 - An expedition under Juan Jordan de Reina sailed from Havana, Cuba, to settle Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1698''' -- 11/17/1698 - An expedition under the command of Juan Jordan Reina arrived at Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1698''' -- 11/21/1698 - An expedition under the command of Andres de Arriola, arrived in Pensacola from Vera Cruz, Mexico | ||
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+ | == 1700's == | ||
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+ | '''1702''' -- French, under d'Iberville, founded Mobile, Biloxi, and Dauphin Island | ||
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+ | '''1702''' -- Spanish settlers at Pensacola suffered a sever epidemic, probably Yellow Fever | ||
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+ | '''1704''' -- Pensacola received its first women settlers | ||
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+ | '''1707''' -- Creek Indians, under the urging of the British, attacked and burned Spanish Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1707''' -- Creeks laid siege to Fort San Carlos at Pensacola, but withdrew | ||
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+ | '''1719''' -- Spanish recaptured Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1719''' -- 05/13/1719 - French from Mobile sailed to Pensacola in an attempt to capture the town | ||
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+ | '''1719''' -- 05/16/1719 - The French Fleet, under Jean Baptiste Le Moyne and his brother Sieur de Bienville, entered Pensacola Bay, fired on Fort San Carlos, and captured the Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1719''' -- 09/18/1719 - French recaptured Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1722''' -- Spain reclaimed Pensacola by treaty with France | ||
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+ | '''1723''' -- Spanish built a village on Santa Rosa Island | ||
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+ | '''1723''' -- French left Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1743''' -- The first timber export left Pensacola by the Havana Company | ||
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+ | '''1752''' -- A Hurricane hit the Pensacola Area | ||
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+ | '''1757''' -- 12/23/1757 - King Ferdinand VII named Pensacola 'Presidio San Miqual de Panzacola' | ||
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+ | '''1760''' -- A Hurricane struck Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1763''' -- Spanish left Pensacola as a result of the Treaty of Ghent, which gave Florida to the British | ||
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+ | '''1763''' -- 02/10/1763 - The Spanish and British signed the Treaty of Paris, resulting in Spain ceding Florida to the British | ||
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+ | '''1763''' -- 07/10/1763 - Colonel Augustin Prevost sailed from Havana, Cuba with 4 ships & 350 men on their way to accept the transfer of Florida from Spain to Great Britain | ||
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+ | '''1763''' -- 08/05/1763 - Colonel Augustine Prevost arrived in Pensacola with 350 men to accept the transfer of Florida from Spain to Great Britian | ||
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+ | '''1763''' -- 08/06/1763 - Lieutenant Colonel Augustin Prevost and troops took command of Pensacola for the British | ||
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+ | '''1763''' -- 09/03/1763 - The Spanish left Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1764''' -- 10/21/1764 - George Johnstone arrived in Pensacola as West Florida's first British governor | ||
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+ | '''1764''' -- 11/24/1764 - The first council was convened by the British in Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1767''' -- George Johnstone relieved as governor of West Florida and succeeded by Monfort Browne | ||
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+ | '''1769''' -- John Eliot arrived in Pensacola as the new governor | ||
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+ | '''1769''' -- 05/02/1769 - John Eliot, governor of West Florida, hanged himself | ||
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+ | '''1769''' -- 07/31/1769 - Durnford named Lieutenant Governor as acting governor | ||
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+ | '''1770''' -- Peter Chester arrived in Pensacola as the new British governor | ||
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+ | '''1770''' -- Bernardo de Galvez appointed governor of Spanish Louisiana | ||
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+ | '''1770''' -- 08/10/1770 - Peter Chester arrived in Pensacola as governor of West Florida | ||
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+ | '''1774''' -- 10/24/1774 - Continental Congress wrote to the Assembly in Pensacola, but was suppressed by Governor Chester | ||
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+ | '''1777''' -- 01/01/1777 - Don Bernardo Galvez became the acting Governor of Louisiana | ||
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+ | '''1779''' -- 06/21/1779 - Spain declared war on England (implications for Florida) | ||
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+ | '''1780''' -- Durnford surrendered Mobile to Galvez | ||
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+ | '''1780''' -- 01/28/1780 - Galvez sailed from New Orleans in an abortive attempt to capture Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1781''' -- 02/28/1781 - Galvez sailed again from New Orleans with an invasion force headed for Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1781''' -- 03/09/1781 - Galvez entered Pensacola Bay and lays siege to the British | ||
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+ | '''1781''' -- 05/07/1781 - Galvez began his siege of the British [[Fort George]], located just north of Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1781''' -- 05/08/1781 - British General John Campbell surrendered Pensacola to Galvez after a shot from the Spanish cannon (mortar) destroys the British powder magazine | ||
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+ | '''1781''' -- 05/09/1781 - British soldiers left their fort at Pensacola, officially ending the British presence in Florida | ||
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+ | '''1792''' -- [[Francisco Moreno]] was born in Pensacola | ||
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+ | '''1794''' -- 08/10/1794 - Jackson Morton was born | ||
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+ | '''1795''' -- The United States and Spain signed the Pickney Treaty establishing the borders between the United States and Spanish Florida | ||
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+ | '''1798''' -- [[William H. Chase]] was born in Massachusetts | ||
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+ | == 1800's == | ||
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+ | '''1801''' -- [[William Panton]], co-owner of Panton-Leslie & Company, died at sea | ||
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+ | '''1804''' -- The [[Panton-Leslie Company]] changed its name to John Forbes & Company | ||
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+ | '''1807''' -- The Inneraity family assumed control of John Forbes & Company | ||
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+ | '''1808''' -- Thomas William Brent was Born in Washington DC | ||
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+ | '''1812''' -- Stephen Russell Mallory, future US Senator and Confederate Secretary of the Navy, was born in Trinidad | ||
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+ | '''1813''' -- General James Wilkinson and troops captured Mobile | ||
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+ | '''1813''' -- 08/30/1813 - Fort Mims Massacre |