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- Spanish Florida was established in 1513, when Juan Ponce de León claimed peninsular Florida for Spain during the first official European expedition to North America.
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Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba, the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas.
In 1763, Spain traded Florida to the Kingdom of Great Britain for control of Havana, Cuba, which had been captured by the British during the Seven Years' War. It was part of a large expansion of British territory following the country's victory in the Seven Years' War .
Feb 9, 2010 · Spanish colonization of the Florida peninsula began at St. Augustine in 1565. By the 17th century, the Spanish began coming under attack from Native Americans defending their ancestral...
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Feb 4, 2023 · The First Spanish Period, as it's called, didn't begin until the establishment of St. Augustine on the Atlantic coast of Florida in 1565. According to JSTOR Daily, that's when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés finally succeeded where so many others before him failed — he got Europeans to settle in Florida.
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Sep 21, 2021 · Florida in 1822 - 1 year after it was ceded to the US by Spain. The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during American independence. Still, by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, they returned to Spanish control. Spain's control over Florida was precarious.
Florida had become a burden to Spain, which could not afford to send settlers or man garrisons, so Madrid decided to cede the territory to the United States in exchange for settling the boundary dispute along the Sabine River in Spanish Texas.
In 1570, the Spanish Empire was divided into two districts, New Spain ( Mexico) and Peru, each with a viceroy selected by the king. Florida was a province of New Spain, an area encompassing Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, and the Caribbean Islands.
