Timeline History of Florida
HISTORY OF LA FLORIDA: TIMELINE AT-A-GLANCE
12,000 years ago (10,000 B.C.E.) - Native Americans occupy Florida
16th Century - Africans arrive with Spaniards
1513 - Juan Ponce de León lands on East Coast
1521 - Juan Ponce de León returns and is mortally wounded on Florida’s SW Coast
1528 - Pánfilo de Narváez expedition
1539 - 1543 - Hernando de Soto expedition
1539 - 1540 - Francisco Maldonado
1559 - Tristán de Luna
1562 - Jean Ribault – Jacksonville and Beaufort, SC
1564 - Rene de Laudonnière – Ft. Caroline
1565 - Pedro Menéndez – St. Augustine
1573 – Spanish Missions
1587 – Roanoke (Lost Colony). VA
1607 – Jamestown, VA
1620 – Plymouth (Pilgrims), MASS
1630 – Massachusetts Bay (Puritans)
1687 – The first runaway slaves from northern plantations are granted asylum in St. Augustine.
1698 - Spaniards re-establish Pensacola
1738 – Fort Mosè
1763 – Florida to Britain
1783 – Florida to Spain
1818 – First Seminole War
1821 – Florida as United States Territory
1845 – Florida becomes a State
Source: Museum of Florida History and www.floridamemory.com/timeline
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