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A shell midden at Enterprise, Florida in 1875.. The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of Gondwana at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of Laurentia 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator.
By the first the State of Lahore (i.e. West Punjab) handed over to the British, as equivalent for ten million of indemnity, the hill countries between Beas and Indus; by the second [72] the British made over to Gulab Singh for 7.5 million all the hilly or mountainous country situated to the east of Indus and west of Ravi" (i.e. the Vale of ...
Deciding that the colony was too large to administer as a single unit, British officials divided Florida into two colonies separated by the Apalachicola River: the colony of East Florida, with its capital located in St. Augustine; and West Florida, with its capital located in Pensacola. East Florida was much larger and comprised the bulk of the ...
The colonial governors of Florida governed Florida during its colonial period (before 1821). The first European known to arrive there was Juan Ponce de León in 1513, but the governorship did not begin until 1565, when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine and was declared Governor and Adelantado of Florida.
Florida is split into West and East Florida, both territories of Britain; July 20: John Hedges is appointed as the first governor of East Florida. August 6: Augustine Prévost is appointed as the first governor of West Florida. 1768: The colony of New Smyrna is established by Dr. Andrew Turnbull. 1783
Sketch of Shah Hamadan mosque dating back to 1906. The Kashmir Sultanate, [b] historically Latinised as the Sultanate of Cashmere and officially known as the State of Kashmir, was a medieval kingdom established in the early 14th century, primarily in the Kashmir Valley, found in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent.
William Pope Duval became the first official governor of the Florida Territory and soon afterward the capital was established at Tallahassee, but only after removing a Seminole tribe from the land. [4]: 63–74 The new capital of Tallahassee was located approximately halfway between the old colonial capitals of Pensacola and St. Augustine ...
The Sikh Empire, officially known as Sarkār-i-Khālsa and Khālasa Rāj, [citation needed] was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. [7] It existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore, to 1849, when it was defeated and conquered by the British East India Company in the Second Anglo-Sikh War.