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'''1702''' -- French, under d'Iberville, founded Mobile, Biloxi, and Dauphin Island
'''1702''' -- Spanish settlers at Pensacola suffered a sever severe epidemic, probably [[Yellow Fever ]]
'''1704''' -- Pensacola received its first women settlers
'''1719''' -- 05/13/1719 - French from Mobile sailed to Pensacola in an attempt to capture the town
'''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
'''1719''' -- 09/18/1719 - French recaptured Pensacola
'''17221720''' -- France and Spain reclaimed Pensacola by treaty with France make peace.
'''1722''' -- France burns Pensacola in a scorched earth policy. Spanish secure return of Pensacola from France and reoccupy, November 25. Spaniards build on [[Santa Rosa Island]] - the "Second Pensacola." '''1723''' -- Spanish built a village on [[Santa Rosa Island ]]
'''1723''' -- French left Pensacola
'''1743''' -- The first timber export left Pensacola by the Havana Company
'''17521753-1763''' -- A Hurricane hit the Spanish garrisoned at Pensacola Area
'''1754''' -- Hurricane destroys the village of Pensacola on Santa Rosa Island. Survivors move to the mainland. '''1757''' -- 12/23/1757 - King Ferdinand VII named Pensacola VI(I?) issues royal orders naming settlement near San Miguel mission (near today's Seville Square), 'Presidio San Miqual de Panzacola' or [[Panzacola]] - the "Third Pensacola."
'''1760''' -- A Hurricane struck Pensacola
'''1763''' -- Spanish left Pensacola as a result of the [[Treaty of Ghent]], which gave Florida to the British
'''1763''' -- 02/10/1763 - The Spanish and British signed the [[Treaty of Paris]], resulting in Spain ceding Florida to the British
'''1763''' -- 07/10/1763 - Colonel Augustin [[Augustine Prevost ]] sailed from Havana, Cuba with 4 ships & 350 men on their way to accept the transfer of Florida from Spain to Great Britain
'''1763''' -- 08/05/1763 - Lieutenant Colonel [[Augustine Prevost ]] arrived in Pensacola with 350 men to accept the transfer of Florida from Spain to Great Britian
'''1763''' -- 08/06/1763 - Lieutenant Colonel [[Augustin Prevost ]] and troops took command of Pensacola for the British
'''1763''' -- 09/03/1763 - The Spanish left Pensacola
'''1764''' -- First meeting of West Florida Council, November. Began by declaring all titles purchased from departing Spaniards void. Surveyor, [[Elias Durnford]], prepares a plan for the city. Divides town into building and garden lots with the dviding line being present day [[Garden Street]]
'''1764''' -- 10/21/1764 - George Johnstone arrived in Pensacola as West Florida's first British governor
'''1767''' -- George Johnstone relieved as governor of West Florida and succeeded by Monfort Browne
'''1769''' -- [[John Eliot ]] arrived in Pensacola as the new governor
'''1769''' -- 05/02/1769 - [[John Eliot]], governor of West Florida, hanged himself
'''1769''' -- 07/31/1769 - [[Elias Durnford ]] named Lieutenant Governor as acting governor
'''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 '''1773-1774''' -- Botanist [[William Bartram]] explores Florida across what is now known as the Batram Trail
'''1774''' -- 10/24/1774 - Continental Congress wrote to the Assembly in Pensacola, but was suppressed by Governor Chester
'''1775-1783''' -- Revolutionary War, Florida remains loyal to England
'''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''' -- [[Elias Durnford ]] surrendered Mobile to Galvez
'''1780''' -- 01/28/1780 - [[Bernardo de Galvez]] sailed from New Orleans in an abortive attempt to capture Pensacola
'''1781''' -- The land that St. Michaels Cemetery occupies was designated a burying place.
'''1781''' -- 02/28/1781 - [[Bernardo de Galvez]] sailed again from New Orleans with an invasion force headed for Pensacola
'''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
'''1783''' -- Florida given to Spain by England in exchange for Bahamas and Gibraltar. Most British settlers leave.
'''1784''' -- Spanish census of Pensacola. Population = 593 persons
'''1785''' -- Panton, Leslie & John Forbes & Co. Trading Post in Pensacola is established
'''1792''' -- [[Francisco Moreno]] was born in Pensacola
'''1794''' -- 08/10/1794 - [[Jackson Morton ]] was born
'''1795''' -- Spain yields its claim to the northern part of West Florida . 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
