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Florida was under colonial rule by Spain from the 16th century to the 19th century, and briefly by Great Britain during the 18th century (1763–1783). Neither Spain nor Britain maintained a large military or civilian population. It became a territory of the United States in 1821. Two decades later, on March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted to the ...
19th-century Florida politicians (5 C, 39 P) This page was last edited on 11 August 2024, at 20:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The militia and their allies played the central role in the destruction of the Pequot Indians in the Pequot War of 1636–1638, as well as victory in the hard-fought King Philip's War of 1675–1676. [3] In the 18th century the British Army fought the French Army in a series of major European wars, especially the French and Indian War of 1754 ...
An 18th-century map of Florida. This is a timeline of the U.S. state of Florida. Pre-European. 15,405–14,146 BC: Page-Ladson site. 9320 BC: Cutler Fossil Site.
On March 30, 1822, the United States merged East Florida and part of what formerly constituted West Florida into the Florida Territory. [10] William Pope Duval became the first official governor of the Florida Territory and soon afterward the capital was established at Tallahassee , but only after removing a Seminole tribe from the land.
Years of the 19th century in Florida (79 C, 1 P) Pages in category "19th century in Florida" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Construction workers in northeast Florida have unearthed a piece of 19th-century history buried beneath the oldest city in the United States. ‘An incredible find’: Florida road crews discover ...
East Florida (Spanish: Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 to 1821. The British gained control over Spanish Florida in 1763 as part of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War.