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 * =**Date**= || =**Event**= ||
 * **10000BC** || **Early people reached what is now Florida.** ||
 * **6000BC** || **Evidence was found that people began to bury their dead.** ||
 * **3000BC** || **Native Floridians began to live in villages.** ||
 * **2000BC** || **Native Floridians began to make pottery.** ||
 * **1000BC** || **Native Floridans began to build mounds for burial sites, temples, and houses for their leaders.** ||
 * **800AD** || **Floridians began to grow maize (corn).** ||
 * ** 1492AD ** || ** Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain looking for a new trade route to Asia. He landed in North America. ** ||
 * **1500AD** || **There are now more than 500 groups of Native Floridians.** ||
 * ** 1513AD ** || ** Juan Ponce de Leon, a conquistador, arrived in Florida. ** ||
 * ** 1528AD ** || ** Panfilo De Narvaez expedition begins. ** ||
 * ** 1539AD ** || ** Hernando De Soto begins exploratoin of Florida. ** ||
 * ** 1562AD ** || ** Jean Rebault claims Florida for France and places a marker by the mouth of the St Johns River. ** ||
 * ** 1565AD ** || ** Spanish found St. Augustine and capture Fort Caroline. ** ||
 * ** 1586AD ** || ** Sir Francis Drake attacks St.Augustine. ** ||
 * ** 1650AD ** || ** Work on the Castillo de San Marcos begins. ** ||
 * ** 1693AD ** || ** Spain's king fees runaway slaves who come to Florida from English colinies. ** ||
 * ** 1695AD ** || ** Workers finish the castillo de San Marcos. ** ||
 * **1738AD** || **Fort Mose is begun.** ||