GLCEvent!Florida Discovered by the Spanish St. AugustineCNoteJuan Ponce De Leon landed near St. Augustine, looking for gold. He named the state Florida after the Pascua Florida (The Feast of Flowers or Easter). SJahoda, Gloria. Florida: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976. p. 19Attempt at ColonizationhPonce de Len returned to the southwestern coast of the peninsula, accompanied by two-hundred people, fifty horses, and numerous beasts of burden. His colonization attempt quickly failed because of attacks by native people. However, Ponce de Lens activities served to identify Florida as a desirable place for explorers, missionaries, and treasure seekers. bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 28, 2001.Hernando de Soto Visits Tallahassee3Hernando de Soto began an expedition in search of gold and silver, which took him on a long trek through Florida . For four years, de Sotos expedition wandered, in hopes of finding the fabled wealth of the Indian people. De Soto and his soldiers camped for five months in the area now known as Tallahassee.bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 28, 2001.#Spain Tries Again to Settle Florida2 Pensacola BayTristn de Luna y Arellano led another attempt by Europeans to colonize Florida. He established a settlement at Pensacola Bay, but a series of misfortunes caused his efforts to be abandoned after two years. bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 28, 2001.French SettlementU! JacksonvilleFrenchman Ren Goulaine de Laudonnire established Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St. Johns River, near present-day Jacksonville.bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 28, 2001.Founding of St. Augustine" St. AugustinePedro Menendez de Aviles of Spain enters a harbor which he calls San Augustin on August 28; he captures Fort Caroline which becomes San Mateo, a Spanish outpost. He also massacres the shipwrecked French forces of Admiral Jean Ribault on Anastasia Island. San Augustin will become known as St. Augustine, and will be settled continuously after Menendez leaves part of his troops there before his foray on Fort Caroline. Fhttp://www.yesflorida.com/ Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.Oranges Come to Florida" St. AugustineWOranges were brought to Florida by Pedro Menendez de Aviles. By 1579. he reported back to Spain the oranges were now abumdant. When Spain ceded Florida to the British in 1763, traders began shippiong the fruit north to New York. In 1821, when Florida was ceded to the United States, oranges became a desirable commodity in New York and Boston.YJahoda, Gloria. Florida: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976. p. 105-106.British Raid Florida8HThe British raid Spanish settlements including a 52-day siege of St. Augustine. The town is captured but the fort is not. Governor James Moore of Carolina invades middle Florida forcing the Spaniards and Christianized Indians to abandon the Apalachee missions. Within a few years, the mission era of Florida comes to an end. Jhttp://florida.com/history1.htm Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.British Gain Control@=FFirst Treaty of Paris gives control to England in exchange for Cuba. Ohttp://www.sno-bird.com/fla_hist.htm Taken from the Internet, August 28, 2001.American RevolutionO Z1The two Floridas remained loyal to Great Britain throughout the war. However, Spain, participating indirectly in the war as an ally of France, captured Pensacola from the British in 1781. In 1784 Spain regained control of the rest of Florida as part of the peace treaty that ended the American Revolution.http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 29, 2001 and http://webpages.homestead.com/revwar/files/INDEX.HTM Taken from the Internet, July 3, 2001.First NewspaperY St. AugustineThe East Florida Gazette, is published at St. Augustine by Williams Charles Wells. He rushes out an "extra" to proclaim the British defeat in the Revolutionary War. Jhttp://florida.com/history1.htm Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.Spain Cedes Florida to the U.S.After several official and unofficial U.S. military expeditions into the territory, Spain formally ceded Florida to the United States, according to terms of the Adams-Ons Treaty. bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 29, 2001. Territory of Florida EstablishedPresident James Monroe signs the Congressional Act providing for a Governor and a Legislative Council of 13 citizens. William P. Duval from Kentucky, a Virginian by birth, becomes the first Territorial Governor.Jhttp://florida.com/history1.htm Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.Second Seminole WarThis war, the most significant of the three conflicts between Indian people and U.S. troops in Florida, began over the question of whether Seminoles should be moved westward across the Mississippi River into what is now Oklahoma. Under President Andrew Jackson, the U.S. government spent $20 million and the lives of many U.S. soldiers, Indian people, and U.S. citizens to force the removal of the Seminoles. In the end, the outcome was not as the federal government had planned. Some Indians migrated "voluntarily." Some were captured and sent west under military guard; and others escaped into the Everglades, where they made a life for themselves away from contact with whites. bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 29, 2001.Becomes a StateDZOn the last day of his administration, President John Tyler signs into law the act granting statehood to Florida's 57,921 inhabitants. William D. Moseley, a Jefferson County planter and a North Carolinian who had lived in Florida only six years, becomes the state's first governor.Jhttp://florida.com/history1.htm Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.Florida Secedes From the UnionggWithin several weeks, Florida joined other southern states to form the Confederate States of America. bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 29, 2001.American Civil Warl_No decisive battles were fought on Florida soil. While Union forces occupied many coastal towns and forts, the interior of the state remained in Confederate hands. Florida provided an estimated 15,000 troops and significant amounts of supplies to the Confederacy, but more than 2,000 Floridians, both African American and white, joined the Union army.http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 29, 2001 and http://www.us-civilwar.com/ Taken from the Internet July 3, 2001.Spanish-American WarThe port city of Tampa served as the primary staging area for U.S. troops bound for the war in Cuba. Many Floridians supported the Cuban peoples desire to be free of Spanish colonial rule.bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 29, 2001.'Education for African-American Children Daytona BeachzMary McLeod Bethune, born in South Carolina, moved to Florida after her husband disappeared. She had only $1.50 to her name, but when she saw the conditions of African-American railroad labourers, she became determined to stay and open a school. After canvassing, lecturing and begging she opened her school to six pupils who each paid $0.50 per week. Within two years her enrollment had grown to 200. She got support from Thomas White (White Sewing Machines) and James Gamble (soap), and then merged with the Cookman Institute in Jacksonville. This gained national attention and young African-American students flocked to her campus.WJahoda, Gloria. Florida: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976. p. 85-87.First Night FlightgTampaUThe first night flight in aviation history is made by Lincoln Beachey over Tampa. Jhttp://florida.com/history1.htm Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.'Invasion of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly*The citrus industry suffered. A quarantine was established, and troops set up roadblocks and checkpoints to search vehicles for any contraband citrus fruit. Floridas citrus production was cut by about sixty percent. bhttp://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/flafacts/shorthis.html#human Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.Astronauts LaunchWCape CanaveralThere is a successful launch of astronauts from Cape Canaveral: Navy Commander Alan Shepard on May 5 and Air Force Capt. Virgil Grissom on July 21 for suborbital flights down the Atlantic Missile Range. The Cape is selected as the launching site for a manned lunar landing program.Jhttp://florida.com/history1.htm Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.Walt Disney World_fOrlandoWalt Disney World included a Magic Kingdom theme park like Disneyland, as well as hotels, golf courses, campgrounds, and shopping villages. Walt Disney World quickly became one of the world's premier vacation destinations.lhttp://disney.go.com/disneychannel/z4/TheMagicIsBorn/history.html Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.Challenger Explodesi{Cape CanaveralThe Kennedy Space Center witnesses America's worst space tragedy when the space shuttle "Challenger" explodes after takeoff. All seven astronauts aboard are killed.Jhttp://florida.com/history1.htm Taken from the Internet, August 30, 2001.