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
