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- 1763 – Lieutenant Colonel Augustine Prevost arrived in Pensacola with 350 men to accept the transfer of Florida from Spain to Great Britian.
- 2003 – While pursuing a suspect at the Oakwood Terrace apartments, Escambia County Sheriff's Deputy James Sullivan shot bystander Michael J. Montgomery twice with a Taser.