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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.
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.
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 ...
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
First in 1752 and then again in 1762 After the invasion of India by Nader Shah in 1739, many of the frontier provinces of the Mughal Empire , including Kashmir , exerted autonomy. In the Battles of Lahore in 1748 and 1752 , Lahore was captured by the Durrani forces of Ahmad Shah Durrani , which further weakened the position of the Mughals. [ 1 ]
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 ...
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.