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May 18 – Siege of Kamakura in Japan: Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo, led by Nitta Yoshisada, enter and destroy the city, breaking the power of the Hōjō clan over the Kamakura shogunate.
July 21: Escambia County and St. John's County, Florida's first two counties are established. December 31: Andrew Jackson leaves office as the governor of Florida. 1822 March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office.
A shell midden at Enterprise, Florida in 1875.. The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of Gondwana at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of Laurentia 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator.
1861 – Florida secedes the US and joins the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War 1862 – June 30-July 1: Battle of Tampa . 1863 – October 16–18: Battle of Fort Brooke .
1333. date unknown. Kan'ami, Japanese Noh actor and writer (d. 1384) Helena Kantakouzene, empress consort of Byzantium (d. 1396) Mikhail II of Tver (d. 1399) Peter Parler, German architect (d. 1399) Carlo Zeno, Venetian admiral (d. 1418) 1334. January 4 – Amadeus VI of Savoy (d. 1383) January 13 – King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379) May 25 ...
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
The Floridas (Spanish: Las Floridas) was a region of the southeastern United States comprising the historical colonies of East Florida and West Florida. They were created when England obtained Florida in 1763 (see British Florida), and found it so awkward in geography that she split it in two. The borders of East and West Florida varied.
1333) Marie of Évreux, French noblewoman (House of Capet) (d. 1335) Willem IV of Horne, Dutch nobleman, diplomat and knight (d. 1343) 1304. January 9 – Hōjō Takatoki, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1333) February 16 – Tugh Temür (or Wenzong), Mongol emperor (d. 1332) February 24 – Ibn Battuta, Moroccan scholar and explorer (d. 1369)