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Florida Historical Timeline

Created by carolynmo on Apr 15, 2011

Last updated: 04/15/11 at 10:36 AM

Tags: Marjori Stoneman Douglas

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Apr 15, 2011 7:23 AM

• Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  Apr 7, 1890

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas, conservationist, focussed on the Everglades and is credited for "saving the Everglades"

• John James Audubon
  Jul 1, 1785

  Great American artist known for works pertaining to birds.

• Jean Ribault
  1562

  Jean Ribault a French Huguenot leader starts a colony near present day Jacksonville

• Hernando de Soto
  1539

  Landed near present day Tampa to find gold. DeSoto was cruel to the native people. Relationships between them was not good.

• Panfilo de Narvaez
  1528

  Landed near present day Tampa Bay. Found Calusa settlement. Calusa told Spaniards about gold farther north to get them to leave. They believed the tales and went north.

• Ponce de Leon lands in FL
  Mar 1513

  Juan Ponce de Leon landed on Florida's east coast, near present day Melbourne.