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The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological remains. 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 Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and the Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of Ireland) for 118 years with five monarchs: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The Tudors succeeded the House of Plantagenet as rulers of the Kingdom of England, and were succeeded by the Scottish House of Stuart.
The Tudor myth is a particular tradition in English history, historiography, and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed, and sees the Tudor period of the 16th century as a golden age of peace, law, order, and prosperity.
He founded the Royal Navy, oversaw the annexation of Wales to England with the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, and was the first English monarch to rule as King of Ireland following the Crown of Ireland Act 1542. Henry's contemporaries considered him an attractive, educated, and accomplished king.
Tudor Rebellions. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138839212. (see Chronology section in Preface) Mervyn, Barbara (2014). Enquiring History: Tudor Rebellions 1485-1603. Hodder Education. ISBN 978-1444178715. (Chapter 1, Section "Tudor rebellions - a timeline") O'Day, Rosemary (2010). The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978 ...
On March 30, 1822, the United States merged East Florida and part of what formerly constituted West Florida into the Florida Territory. [10] 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.
1480. 1 August – Treaty of Perpetual Friendship between England and Burgundy. [2]Magdalen College School, Oxford, established by William Waynflete. [3] [4]1481. William Caxton publishes The Historie of Reynart the Foxe, the first English edition of the tale, [2] and also his 1480 translation of Mirrour of the Worlde, the first book printed in England to include woodcut illustrations.
1982 October 1: The Walt Disney Company opens its second park in Florida, Epcot. 1984 May 20: Metrorail begins operating in Miami and is the first and only rapid transit/metro system in Florida. 1985: wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha discovered off Key West, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the most valuable shipwreck ...