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'''1862''' -- 05/10/1862 - Acting Mayor Broshaham surrendered Pensacola to Union officials after the Confederates evacuated the town
'''1865''' -- Florida formally surrendered to Federal forces, May 20. Civil War over in June.
'''1867''' - Perry Home built by Danish-born [[Charles F. Boysen]], currently the [[Scottish Rite Lodge]] (1922) at Palafox and Wright Streets.
'''1868''' -- Reconstruction in Florida ended
'''1868''' -- 03/28/1868 - The Pensacola & Louisville Railroad bought the Alabama & Florida Railroad, which had gone bankrupted after the Civil War, for $55,000
'''1868''' -- 5/25/1868 - Florida readmitted to the Union
'''1870''' -- Lumber boom begins.
'''1870''' -- The Railroad finally connected Pensacola to the outside world
'''1874''' -- 11/20/1874 - [[Jackson Morton]] Died
'''1876''' -- 8/10/1876 - First burial at St. Johns Cemetery
'''1876''' -- 10/01/1876 - [[F. C. Brent]] and [[Louis P. Knowles]] founded the banking firm of [[Knowles & Brent]]
'''1880''' - Pensacola is Florida's third largest city.
'''1880''' -- 02/27/1880 - Louisville & Nashville RR bought the Pensacola Railroad
'''1882''' -- 08/15/1882 - The first train carrying passengers crossed the railroad bridge over Pensacola Bay
'''1883''' -- Opening of the Opera House, built by Daniel F. Sullivan.
'''1883''' -- Saunders Fish Company formed by Thomas E Welles and Captain E. E. Saunders.
'''1883''' -- 04/11/1883 - The Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad was completed between Pensacola and Jacksonville
'''1885''' -- A new court house is completed.
'''1885''' -- 05/20/1885 - Milton's business district burned. Fire may have started in the Mayer Bros store
'''1890s''' -- Fires swept through Pensacola
'''1891''' -- 6/17/1891 - Lee Square, formerly Florida Park, dedicated in memory of [[Jefferson Davis]], [[Stephen R. Mallory]], [[Edward A. Perry]] and the Confederate dead.
'''1892''' -- [[John A. Merritt]] married the daughter of [[R. H. Turner]]
'''1898''' -- 03/21/1898 - Pensacola Electric Railway Company went into operation
'''c. 1898''' -- [[William D. Chipley]] monument erected in [[Ferdinand Plaza]]. Chipley was several times mayor of Pensacola, founder of the Florida Chautauqua and Florida State Senator. The monument is inscribed, Soldier - Statesman - Public Benefactor.
'''1899''' -- 6/20/1899 - Gun Powder at [[Fort Pickens]] exploded, destroying an entire bastion
'''1900''' -- American National Bank established
'''1900''' - [[Alger-Sullivan Company]] begins operation in Century.
'''1901''' -- Theisen Building built and named for Danish-born Chris Thiesen.
'''1902''' -- Pensacola established its first streetcar system
'''1904''' -- William, Albert, and Peter Rosasco bought the Bay Point Mill Company
'''1905''' -- fires destroys much of downtown The last yellow fever epidemic in Pensacola .
'''1905''' -- 01/01/1905 - F. C. Brent retired as the president of the First National Bank
'''1905''' -- 10/31/1905 - Fire erupted in downtown Pensacola destroying the Brent Block which included the Brent and Blount buildings as well as many other buildings.
'''1906''' -- A Hurricane hit Pensacola , category #3, MS/ AL/ Pensacola - 134 dead.
'''1906''' -- Dry dock at the Pensacola Navy Yard destroyed by a hurricane
'''1908''' - New Pensacola City Hall built, current site of T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum. '''1910''' - Hotel San Carlos opens. '''1911''' -- 10/20/1911 - The United States Government closed the Pensacola Navy Yard and it was abandoned
'''1913''' -- 11/17/1913 - FDR arrived in Pensacola to announce plans to create a Naval Air Station at Pensacola
'''1914''' -- 01/20/1914 - The first naval flight school was established at the Pensacola Navy Yard
'''1914''' -- 2/2/1914 - Banks in Pensacola collapse
'''1914''' -- 11/01/1914 - The firm of Crow, Rudolf & Company in Liverpool, England, went bankrupted. The First National Bank of Pensacola had put a lot of money into the company and lost a lot when it when belly up. It caused an economic depression in Pensacola.
'''19141915''' -- 01/20/1914 - The first naval flight school was established at the Pensacola Navy Yard Hospital opens on 12th Avenue by Daughters of Charity (Sacred Heart Hospital).
'''1916''' -- A Hurricane hit NW Florida destroying much of Pensacola and Milton.
'''1916''' -- The Newport Company, a naval stores industry, was established in Pensacola
'''1918''' -- A Flu Epidemic struck Pensacola
'''1919''' - Serious influenza epidemic stricks Pensacola.
'''1920''' - Ten cases of bubonic plague epidemic in Pensacola which includes 6 deaths.
'''1921''' -- The Newport company closed
'''1925''' -- Saenger Theater built at current location on Palafox Street.
'''1926''' -- WCOA AM radio went on the air
'''1926''' -- A hurricane hit Pensacola , category #4, Miami/ MS/ AL/ Pensacola 134 dead.
'''1929''' -- The Stock Market Crashed
'''1930''' -- Warrington, a civilian community named for Capt. Lewis Warrington, moves from Naval Air Station to present site across Bayou Grande.
H. Clay Armstrong produces the History of Escambia County.
'''1931''' -- Bridges are built across Santa Rosa Sound and Pensacola Bay.
'''1936''' -- Spearman Brewery opens.
'''1938''' -- Pensacola's first public library opened for white residents of the community.
'''1939''' -- 01/24/1939 - A post office was established in Gulf Breeze
'''1941''' -- Pensacola Pulp & Paper Company opens, becomes St. Regis and then Champion International.
'''1941''' -- 12/07/1941 - The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, bringing the United States into World War II
'''1948''' -- Escambia General Hospital opens, becomes University Hospital.
'''1951''' -- Baptist Hospital opens.
'''1961''' -- 08/10/1961 - Gulf Breeze's first mayor and city council were officially sworn into office
'''1961''' -- 08/17/1961 - The Gulf Breeze City Council held its first official meeting
'''1963''' -- University of West Florida founded, opens in 1967.
'''1995''' -- 10/05/1995 - Hurricane Opal hit Pensacola
