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== 1500s ==
*[[15151513]] – [[Ponce de Leon]] 'discovers' Florida.
*[[1516]] – Miruelos enters what may be [[Pensacola Bay]].
*[[1525]] – Panfilo de Narveaz explores Florida.
*[[June 11]], [[1559]] – Members of Luna's expedition embark at Vera Cruz, Mexico, for their journey to establish Pensacola.
*[[August 14]], 1559 – Luna's expedition enters Pensacola Bay.
*[[August September 19]], 1559 – A [[Hurricane of 1559|hurricane]] strikes Pensacola Bay, virtually destroying Luna's fleet.
*[[March 16]], [[1561]] – [[Villafane]] arrives at Pensacola for relief for Luna's expedition after the [[hurricane of 1559]].
*[[April 9]], 1561 – Villafane becomes governor of Florida.
== 1700s ==
*[[1702]] – French, under d'Iberville, found [[Mobile]], [[Biloxi]], and [[Dauphin Island]].
*[[1702]] – Spanish settlers at Pensacola suffer a severe epidemic, probably not known but most likely [[yellow fever]].
*[[1704]] – Pensacola receives its first women settlers.
*[[1707]] – [[Creek Indians]], under the urging of the British, attack and burn Spanish Pensacola.
*[[1808]] – [[Thomas William Brent]] is born in Washington, DC.
*[[1808]] – Pensacolians rename their principal streets and plazas in honor of their deceased monarch, [[Ferdinand VII]], and the spirited Spanish resistance movement against Napoleon.
*[[1810]] – Republic of West Florida proclaimed. Formal survey of [[St. Michaels Michael's Cemetery]].
*[[1810]] – Population = 1,000 persons
*[[1812]] – [[Stephen Russell Mallory]], future US Senator and Confederate Secretary of the Navy, was born in Trinidad
*[[May 10]], 1862 – Acting Mayor Broshaham surrenders Pensacola to Union officials after the Confederates evacuated the town.
*[[May 20]], [[1865]] – Florida formally surrenders to Federal forces. Civil War over in June.
*[[1867]] – Perry home built by Danish-born [[Charles F. Carl Frederick Boysen]], currently the [[Scottish Rite Lodge]] (1922) at Palafox and Wright Streets.
*[[1868]] – Reconstruction in Florida ends.
*[[March 28]], 1868 – The [[Pensacola & Louisville Railroad]] purchases the [[Alabama & Florida Railroad]], which had gone bankrupted after the [[Civil War]], for $55,000.
*[[1900]] – [[Baars, Dunwoody & Company]] established.
*1900 – [[St. Anthony's Hospital]] established.
*1900]] – [[Pensacola Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company]] established.
*1900 – [[American National Bank]] established
*1900 – [[Alger-Sullivan Company]] begins operation in [[Century]].
*[[1963]] – [[University of West Florida]] founded, opens in [[1967]].
*[[October 5]], [[1995]] – [[Hurricane Opal]] hits Pensacola.
== Citations ==
* Appleyard, John, ''The History of Local Government in Pensacola & Escambia County'', Pensacola: 1991
* Coker, William S. and G. Douglas Inglis, ''The Spanish Censuses of Pensacola'', 1784-1820: ''A Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola'', Perdido Bay Press: 1980
* Coker, William S. and Thomas D. Watson, Indian Traders of the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands; Panton, Leslie & Company and John Forbes & Company, 1783-1847, University of West Florida Press/ Pensacola: 1986
* McGovern, James R., editor, ''Colonial Pensacola'', 1974: Pensacola
* McGovern, James R., ''The Emergence of a City in the Modern South: Pensacola 1900-1945'', Pensacola: 1976
* Parks, Virginia, editor, Iron Horse in the Pinelands; Building West Floridia's Railroad: 1881-1883, Pensacola Historical Society: 1982
* Pensacola News-Journal, Sunday, October 2, 1949
* Pensacola News-Journal, ''Passport 1995'', p. 7.
* Vicker, Elizabeth D., "A Chronology of Epidemics in Pensacola, Florida, 1764-1995, ''West Florida Footprints'', #14, 1994
* Wentworth, T. T. Jr., ''Pensacola Picture Book'', #17 in a series .