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 * < 10000BC ||< Early people reached what is now called Florida. ||
 * < 6000BC ||< Evidence was found that people began to burry their dead. ||
 * < 3000BC ||< Native Floridians began to live in villages. ||
 * < 2000BC ||< Native Floridians began to make pottery. ||
 * < 1000BC ||< Native Floridians began to bulid mounds for burial sites, tempels, and houses for their leaders. ||
 * < 800AD ||< People in Florida began to grow maize (corn). ||
 * < 1492AD ||< ** Christopher Columbus ** sailed from ** Spain ** loooking for a new trade route to Asia.He landed in North America. ||
 * < 1500AD ||< are now 500 groups of Native Floridians. ||
 * < 1513AD ||< ** Juan Ponce de Leon **, a conquistador, arrived in Florida. ||
 * < 1528AD ||< ** Panfilo de Narvaez's ** expedition began. ||
 * < 1539AD ||< ** Hernando de Soto ** began explanation of Florida. ||
 * < 1562AD ||< ** Jean Ribault ** claimed Florida for ** France **. ||
 * < 1564AD ||< ** French ** built ** Fort Caroline **. ||
 * < 1565AD ||< ** Spanish ** found St. Augustine and captured Fort Caroline. ||
 * < 1586AD ||< ** Sir Francis Drake ** attacked St. Augustine. ||
 * < 1672AD ||< Work on the ** Castillo de Marcos ** began. ||
 * < 1693AD ||< ** Spain's ** kings frees runaway slaves who come to Florida form English colonies. ||
 * < 1695AD ||< Workers finish the ** Castillo de san Marcos. ** ||
 * < 1738AD ||< Fort Mose is begun. ||
 * < 1702AD ||< ** British ** governor** James Moore ** attacks St.Augustine. ||
 * < 1740AD ||< ** British ** governor ** James Oglethorpe ** attacks St.Augustine. ||
 * < 1752AD ||< Fort Mose is rebuilt. ||
 * < 1754AD ||< The French and Indian War begins. ||
 * < 1763AD ||< Under the Treaty of Paris,** Spain ** gives Florida to ** Britain **. ||
 * < 1768AD ||< New Smyrrna plantation is established. ||
 * < 1775AD ||< Fighting between British and American soldiers begins. ||
 * < 1776AD ||< The Declaration of Independence is signed. ||
 * < 1781AD ||< Spain reclaims West Florida. ||
 * < 1783AD ||< The Treaty of Paris gives Florida back to Spain. ||
 * < 1784AD ||< Florida under ** Spanish ** rule. ||
 * < 1803AD ||< The United States buys Louisiana. ||
 * < 1812AD ||< The War of 1812 begins. ||
 * < 1819AD ||< The Adams-Onis Treaty is signed. ||
 * < 1821AD ||< Florida becomes a part of the United States. ||
 * < 1822AD ||< Florida becomes a United States territory. ||
 * < 1823AD ||< The treaty of Moultrie Creek is signed. ||
 * < 1824AD ||< Tallahassee becomes Florida's capital. ||
 * < 1830AD ||< The Indian Removal Act is passed. ||
 * < 1835AD ||< The Second Seminole War begins. ||
 * < 1837AD ||< Osceola is captured. ||
 * < 1842AD ||< The Second Seminole War ends. ||
 * < 1839AD ||< The constitution is approved and sent to the United States Congress. ||
 * < 1845AD ||< Florida becomes the twenty-seventh state in the United States. ||
 * < 1860AD ||< Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States. ||
 * < 1861AD ||< Florida secedes from the Union and helps form the confederacy. The Civil War begins. ||
 * 1863AD || The Emancipation Proclamation is signed. ||
 * 1864AD || The Battle of Olustee is fought. ||
 * 1865AD || The Battle of Natural Bridge is fought. The Civil War ends. Reconstruction starts. ||
 * 1868AD || Florida rejoins the Union. ||
 * 1880AD || Phosphate is first dicovered in Florida. ||
 * 1881AD || Hamilton Disston buys 4 million acres of land in Florida. ||
 * 1886AD || Ybor moves his cigar-making business to Tampa. ||
 * 1890AD || Sponges are discovered off the coast of Tarpon Springs. ||
 * 1891AD || Jose Marti comes to Tampa to Raise money for Cuban independence. ||
 * 1894AD || Henrey Flager's railroad reaches Palm Beach. The first of two terrible freezes destroys many of Florida's citrus crops. ||
 * 1895AD || Jose Marti leads a rebellion in Cuba. ||
 * 1896AD || Flagler's railroad reaches Miami. ||
 * 1898AD || The United States declares war on Spain. ||
 * 1900AD || Railroads in Florida cover more than 3,000 miles. ||
 * 1903AD || Car races are held on Daytona Beach. ||
 * 1904AD || Mary McLeod Bethune opens a school in Daytona Beacxh for African American girls. ||
 * 1912AD || Henery Flager's overseas Railroad reaches Key West. ||
 * 1914AD || World War l begins. ||
 * 1917AD || The United Sates enters the war. ||
 * 1918AD || World War l ends. ||
 * 1920AD || The Nineteenth Amendment guarantees women the right to vote. ||

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