Timeline of Pensacola history

1500's

1515 -- Ponce de Leon 'discovered' Florida

1516 -- Miruelos MAY have entered Pensacola Bay

1525 -- Panfilo de Narveaz explored Florida

1539 -- Hernando de Soto explored Florida

1559 -- 06/11/1559 - Members of Luna's expedition embarked at Vera Cruz, Mexico, for their journey to establish Pensacola

1559 -- 08/14/1559 - Luna's expedition entered Pensacola Bay

1559 -- 08/19/1559 - A hurricane struck Pensacola Bay, virtually destroying Luna's fleet

1561 -- 03/16/1561 - Villafane arriveed at Pensacola for relief for Luna's expedition after the hurricane of 1559

1561 -- 04/09/1561 - Villifane became the governor of Florida

1565 -- St. Augustine, on Florida's East Coast, was founded by the Spanish

1600's

1682 -- 04/06/1682 - La Salle claimed Louisiana for France

1684 -- Sieur de la Salle descended the Mississippi River an made a failed attempt to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi

1686 -- 02/06/1686 - An expedition under the command of Juan Enriques Barroto (Juan Jordan Reina) entered Pensacola Bay

1692 -- 06/26/1892 - Conde de Galve, viceroy of Mexico, was given instructions by the Spanish King to explore the gulf coast

1693 -- 04/07/1693 - Admiral Andres de Pez's expedition entered Pensacola Bay

1694 -- 06/13/1694 - The King of Spain (Charles II??) gave the go ahead to settle Pensacola

1698 -- 11/06/1698 - An expedition under Juan Jordan de Reina sailed from Havana, Cuba, to settle Pensacola

1698 -- 11/17/1698 - An expedition under the command of Juan Jordan Reina arrived at Pensacola

1698 -- 11/21/1698 - An expedition under the command of Andres de Arriola, arrived in Pensacola from Vera Cruz, Mexico

1700's

1702 -- French, under d'Iberville, founded Mobile, Biloxi, and Dauphin Island

1702 -- Spanish settlers at Pensacola suffered a sever epidemic, probably Yellow Fever

1704 -- Pensacola received its first women settlers

1707 -- Creek Indians, under the urging of the British, attacked and burned Spanish Pensacola

1707 -- Creeks laid siege to Fort San Carlos at Pensacola, but withdrew

1719 -- Spanish recaptured Pensacola

1719 -- 05/13/1719 - French from Mobile sailed to Pensacola in an attempt to capture the town

1719 -- 05/16/1719 - The French Fleet, under Jean Baptiste Le Moyne and his brother Sieur de Bienville, entered Pensacola Bay, fired on Fort San Carlos, and captured the Pensacola

1719 -- 09/18/1719 - French recaptured Pensacola

1722 -- Spain reclaimed Pensacola by treaty with France

1723 -- Spanish built a village on Santa Rosa Island

1723 -- French left Pensacola

1743 -- The first timber export left Pensacola by the Havana Company

1752 -- A Hurricane hit the Pensacola Area

1757 -- 12/23/1757 - King Ferdinand VII named Pensacola 'Presidio San Miqual de Panzacola'

1760 -- A Hurricane struck Pensacola

1763 -- Spanish left Pensacola as a result of the Treaty of Ghent, which gave Florida to the British

1763 -- 02/10/1763 - The Spanish and British signed the Treaty of Paris, resulting in Spain ceding Florida to the British

1763 -- 07/10/1763 - Colonel Augustin Prevost sailed from Havana, Cuba with 4 ships & 350 men on their way to accept the transfer of Florida from Spain to Great Britain

1763 -- 08/05/1763 - Colonel Augustine Prevost arrived in Pensacola with 350 men to accept the transfer of Florida from Spain to Great Britian

1763 -- 08/06/1763 - Lieutenant Colonel Augustin Prevost and troops took command of Pensacola for the British

1763 -- 09/03/1763 - The Spanish left Pensacola

1764 -- 10/21/1764 - George Johnstone arrived in Pensacola as West Florida's first British governor

1764 -- 11/24/1764 - The first council was convened by the British in Pensacola

1767 -- George Johnstone relieved as governor of West Florida and succeeded by Monfort Browne

1769 -- John Eliot arrived in Pensacola as the new governor

1769 -- 05/02/1769 - John Eliot, governor of West Florida, hanged himself

1769 -- 07/31/1769 - Durnford named Lieutenant Governor as acting governor

1770 -- Peter Chester arrived in Pensacola as the new British governor

1770 -- Bernardo de Galvez appointed governor of Spanish Louisiana

1770 -- 08/10/1770 - Peter Chester arrived in Pensacola as governor of West Florida

1774 -- 10/24/1774 - Continental Congress wrote to the Assembly in Pensacola, but was suppressed by Governor Chester

1777 -- 01/01/1777 - Don Bernardo Galvez became the acting Governor of Louisiana

1779 -- 06/21/1779 - Spain declared war on England (implications for Florida)

1780 -- Durnford surrendered Mobile to Galvez

1780 -- 01/28/1780 - Galvez sailed from New Orleans in an abortive attempt to capture Pensacola

1781 -- 02/28/1781 - Galvez sailed again from New Orleans with an invasion force headed for Pensacola

1781 -- 03/09/1781 - Galvez entered Pensacola Bay and lays siege to the British

1781 -- 05/07/1781 - Galvez began his siege of the British Fort George, located just north of Pensacola

1781 -- 05/08/1781 - British General John Campbell surrendered Pensacola to Galvez after a shot from the Spanish cannon (mortar) destroys the British powder magazine

1781 -- 05/09/1781 - British soldiers left their fort at Pensacola, officially ending the British presence in Florida

1792 -- Francisco Moreno was born in Pensacola

1794 -- 08/10/1794 - Jackson Morton was born

1795 -- The United States and Spain signed the Pickney Treaty establishing the borders between the United States and Spanish Florida

1798 -- William H. Chase was born in Massachusetts

1800's

1801 -- William Panton, co-owner of Panton-Leslie & Company, died at sea

1804 -- The Panton-Leslie & Company changed its name to John Forbes & Company

1807 -- The Inneraity family assumed control of John Forbes & Company

1808 -- Thomas William Brent was Born in Washington DC

1812 -- Stephen Russell Mallory, future US Senator and Confederate Secretary of the Navy, was born in Trinidad

1813 -- General James Wilkinson and troops captured Mobile

1813 -- 08/30/1813 - Fort Mims Massacre