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An 18th-century map of Florida. This is a timeline of the U.S. state of Florida. Pre-European ... July 15: Tampa reincorporates for a 5th and final time as a city.
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.
1992 – Florida Holocaust Museum is established. [31] 1993 Original Sunshine Skyway Bridge is demolished. [35] Mazzaro Italian Market opened [36] 1998 – Tampa Bay Rays established as Tampa Bay Devil Rays. [37] 2000 – Population: 248,232; St. Petersburg, Florida: Museum of History.
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 .
Timucua teepee village in Florida circa 1562. Hernando de Soto and his army passed through Gainesville in August 1539 towards the beginning of their four-year exploration of what is now the southeastern United States, the third village where they stayed, Utinamocharra, having been in the dense cluster east of Moon Lake [13] at the northwestern edge of present-day Gainesville.
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.
Spain regained control of Florida from England in 1784, but the population of the colony was now non-Catholic. When Florida was ceded to the United States in 1821, the Catholic population of Florida was still small. The first diocese in Florida was the Diocese of St. Augustine, founded in 1870. After its founding, the diocese started recruiting ...
Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas.