Fifty more enslaved African people were purchased to take the place of paid and enslaved Indigenous workers at the Castillo de San Marcos...
Ownership of Fort Marion transferred to the National Park Service.
Three nuns from the Order of St. Joseph are arrested for teaching Black students.
Supreme Court allows segregation laws, coining the infamous 'separate but equal' myth...
In a televised speech that is now infamous, President John F. Kennedy expressed that America was being faced with "a moral issue ... as old as the scriptures and as...
Ray Charles begins his studies at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
The Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation is issued by President Lincoln. In order to rebuild the United States, Lincoln offered to forgive Confederates who swore...
Trailblazing physician, public servant.
Christopher Columbus sets sail for "the New World," beginning the imperial era of Spain. This conquest was ordered by Isabella I, Queen of Castile. Columbus came ash...
Florida makes it illegal for White teachers to teach at Black schools and vice versa.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a civil rights organization that was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and other Alabama activists. This was publi...
150 students from Richard J. Murray High School held a peaceful protest against segregation at the Hotel Ponce de Leon, now Flagler College. Police were called, and...
King Charles II decrees that enslaved people under British control who seek sanctuary in Spanish territories will be given liberty. This was a measure that both harm...
Queen Regent Mariana of Spain orders Nueva España (or "New Spain," now Mexico) to pay for a stone fort to be built in San Augustin...
Founded in 1873.
This treaty between the United States of America and Spain transferred ownership of East and West Florida to the U.S...
After evacuating the residents of the Fort Mose to the Castillo de San Marcos, Captain Francisco Menendez and his militia fight the army of General James Oglethorpe...
The Treaty of Paris trades Havana for St. Augustine, marking the start of the British Period of St. Augustine's history...
Secessionists in Charleston, South Carolina attack federal troops who still occupy Fort Sumter, which is an island fort in the Charleston Harbor. This was the first...
A month before Abraham Lincoln would be sworn in as President, eleven southern states band together to form a new country. These rebel states were (in order of seces...
According to Florida Atlantic University, Florida enacted 19 segregation laws between the years of 1865 and 1967. Florida was also known for enforcing especially har...
In return for Spain's military support during the American Revolutionary War, the newly formed United States of America returned the peninsula of Florida to Spanish...
During an 'as usual' day of picketing for youth demonstrators in St. Augustine, sixteen teenagers were arrested at four different lunch counters in the city. Among t...
What was the Stono Rebellion? Discover a South Carolina Freedom Struggle
