SAINT AUGUSTINE HISTORY

Historic events and personalities

> Go to ... Home page Ancient History First Spanish Period English Period Second Spanish Period Territorial Period Early Statehood Flagler Period Modern Times Vespucci Ponce de Leon Huguenots Jean Ribault First Mass Francis Drake Attack Captain Searles Attack Building of Castillo starts James Moore Attack Oglethorpe Attack Fort Matanzas Built Treaty of Paris (1763) Dr. Andrew Turnbull Revolutionary War Second Treaty of Paris Patriots capture Fernandina Treaty of Ghent Old Talahassee Meeting Stars and Stripes raised Seminole Wars Osceola Captured Statehood Achieved Union occupies city Emancipation Proclamation Indians exiled in fort Marion Flagler comes to town Tampay Bay Hotel opens Villa Zorayda built Ponce de Leon Hotel opens April 12, 1887 fire Henry Flagler dies flagler's Folly realized April 2, 1914 fire Davis Shores development MLK comes to town 400th Anniversary Alligator Farm opens Bridge of Lions built Lightner Museum opens Flagler College established Why is St. Augustine unique?

Ponce de Leon Statue

Menendez Statue

OUR CITY'S HISTORY

Our history can be divided in 8 periods:

9000 BC to 1565 Ancient History (Pre-Spanish)

1565 - 1763 First Spanish period

1763 - 1784 English period

1784 - 1821 Second Spanish period

1821 - 1845 Territorial period (pre-statehood)

1845 - 1888 Early statehood (pre-Flagler)

1888 - 1913 Flagler period

1914 - present Modern times

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