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'''1704''' -- Pensacola received its first women settlers
'''1707''' -- [[Creek Indians]], under the urging of the British, attacked and burned Spanish Pensacola
'''1707''' -- Creeks [[Creek Indians]] laid siege to [[Fort San Carlos ]] at Pensacola, but withdrew
'''1719''' -- Spanish recaptured Pensacola
'''1770''' -- Peter Chester arrived in Pensacola as the new British governor
'''1770''' -- [[Bernardo de Galvez ]] appointed governor of Spanish Louisiana
'''1770''' -- 08/10/1770 - Peter Chester arrived in Pensacola as governor of West Florida
'''1774''' -- 10/24/1774 - Continental Congress wrote to the Assembly in Pensacola, but was suppressed by Governor Chester
'''1777''' -- 01/01/1777 - [[Don Bernardo Galvez ]] became the acting Governor of Louisiana
'''1779''' -- 06/21/1779 - Spain declared war on England (implications for Florida)
'''1780''' -- Durnford surrendered Mobile to Galvez
'''1780''' -- 01/28/1780 - [[Bernardo de Galvez ]] sailed from New Orleans in an abortive attempt to capture Pensacola
'''1781''' -- 02/28/1781 - [[Bernardo de Galvez ]] sailed again from New Orleans with an invasion force headed for Pensacola
'''1781''' -- 03/09/1781 - [[Bernardo de Galvez ]] entered Pensacola Bay and lays siege to the British
'''1781''' -- 05/07/1781 - [[Bernardo de Galvez ]] began his siege of the British [[Fort George]], located just north of Pensacola
'''1781''' -- 05/08/1781 - British General John Campbell surrendered Pensacola to [[Bernardo de Galvez ]] after a shot from the Spanish cannon (mortar) destroys the British powder magazine
'''1781''' -- 05/09/1781 - British soldiers left their fort at Pensacola, officially ending the British presence in Florida
'''1795''' -- The United States and Spain signed the Pickney Treaty establishing the borders between the United States and Spanish Florida
'''1798''' -- [[William H. Chase]] was born in Massachusetts
== 1800's ==
