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This is a list of the individual Florida year pages. In 1845, the United States admitted the Florida as the 27th U.S. state , establishing the State of Florida. [ 1 ]
William Watson bought the property where his house in downtown St. Augustine later stood in 1779 from James Penman, a British attorney and friend of Andrew Turnbull who left East Florida following a series of disputes with then Governor Patrick Tonyn. On this land he converted a large stable building into a seven-room convalescent home.
March 3: Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th U.S. state. May 26: Florida Legislature is formed succeeding the Florida Territorial Legislative Council. June 25: Florida's first elected governor, William Dunn Moseley takes office. 1848 January 8: Holmes County is established. 1849 January 18: Putnam County is established.
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.
Lawyer, Florida Attorney General, Florida Secretary of State, Chairman of the Florida State University Trustees 2011 Park Trammell: Florida's 21st Governor 1913-1917 and United States Senator 1917-1936 2011 Sandy D'Alemberte: American Bar Association president & Florida State University president (1994–2003) 2010 Paula Hawkins
The Floridas (Spanish: Las Floridas) was a region of the southeastern United States comprising the historical colonies of East Florida and West Florida. They were created when England obtained Florida in 1763 (see British Florida), and found it so awkward in geography that she split it in two. The borders of East and West Florida varied.
1889-1890 Florida Legislature November 1888 1891-1892 Florida Legislature November 1890 1893-1894 Florida Legislature November 1892 1895-1896 Florida Legislature November 1894 1897-1898 Florida Legislature November 1896 1899-1900 Florida Legislature April 1, 1899 [4] November 1898 1901-1902 Florida Legislature April 1901 [5] November 1900
East Florida (Spanish: Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 to 1821. The British gained control over Spanish Florida in 1763 as part of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War.