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The fair was founded as the South Florida Fair in downtown Tampa and renamed the Mid-Winter Festival a few years later. The name finally changed to the present Florida State Fair in 1915. [7] The World Wars cancelled the fairs in 1918 & 1942–1945. In 1975, the Florida Legislature created the Florida State Fair Authority and designated the ...
Spain regained control of Florida from England in 1784, but the population of the colony was now non-Catholic. When Florida was ceded to the United States in 1821, the Catholic population of Florida was still small. The first diocese in Florida was the Diocese of St. Augustine, founded in 1870. After its founding, the diocese started recruiting ...
After 1630, and throughout the 18th century, Tegesta (after the Tequesta tribe) was an alternate name of choice for the Florida peninsula following publication of a map by the Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritsz in Joannes de Laet's History of the New World. [22] [23] [24] Further Spanish attempts to explore and colonize Florida were disastrous.
A number of Timucuan Catholic converts in Northern Florida were slaughtered during these incursions. After the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, Spain ceded all of Florida to Great Britain for the return of Cuba. Given the antagonism of Protestant Great Britain to Catholicism, the majority of the Catholic population in Florida fled to ...
In 1641 a decree declared that adherents of the pope were to be fined 1000 pounds of tobacco if they attempted to hold office. [5] The following year all priests were given five days within which to leave the colony. [6] In 1661 all persons were obliged to attend the Established services or pay a fine of £20.
Present were delegates from the United States (including his descendant Rev. William Robinson of Vermont, who was a member of the committee responsible for the marker's erection) and England, the city and University of Leiden, and the city's clergy. On this marker was inscribed: “In Memory of Rev. John Robinson, M. A.
The school's first Commencement, under the name Florida State University, took place from June 10–12, 1891. [40] The Tallahassee institution never assumed the "University of Florida" name, [38] though the act recognizing it as such was not repealed until 1903, when the title was transferred to the Florida Agricultural College. [38] [41]
These first years were extremely difficult for the colony, as the men were mostly students and professional men unaccustomed to farming and disease. [ 9 ] Despite the hardship and tribulations, the Saxons managed to establish seven small settlements which they named after the communities that they had left behind in Germany, among them ...