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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's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records. The state received its name from that conquistador, who called the peninsula La Pascua Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.
Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba in the Viceroyalty of New Spain , and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas .
In 1812, General George Mathews and Colonel John McKee were commissioned by President James Madison as agents "with secret instructions 'to repair to that quarter with all possible expedition', for the purpose of carrying out the intentions of the act" (i.e., a secret Act of Congress on January 15, 1811) and to approach the Spanish governor in an attempt to acquire East Florida.