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St. Augustine Timeline

 

10,000 BC                              Paleoindians in Florida

 

First Spanish Period

1460-

1521    July                              Lifespan of Juan Ponce de Leon

 

1512     February 23               Juan Ponce de Leon issued charter by the Spanish King for Bimimi

 

1513    March 27                    Juan Ponce de Leon “discovers” Florida

 

1513     April 2                        Juan Ponce de Leon lands in Florida.

 

1519    February 15                 lifespan of Pedro Menendez de Aviles

1575    September 17

 

1521    Feb 20                       Juan Ponce de Leon attempts colony at either Caloosahatchee River or Sanibel Island

 

1528    April 14                      Panfilo de Narvaez  at Tampa Bay.

 

1539    May 25                       Hernandez de Soto makes landfall at Tampa Bay

 

1549    June 25                       Fray Luis Cancer de Barbastro martyred at Tampa Bay

 

1556    January 16                 Philip II, King of Spain

1598  September 13   

 

1559    August 14                   Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano reaches Pensacola Bay

 

1560                                       Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis with Spain

 

1562    Spring                          Jean Ribault reaches St. Augustine (French)

 

1564    June                             Fort Caroline (Fort San Mateo constructed) (French)

 

1565     March 20                   Pedro Menendez signs contract with King Philip II for Florida

July 8                           8 ships under Pedro Menendez leave the Canary Islands

            August 28                    See Florida – Feast Day of St. Augustine

September 8               Pedro Menendez lands in what would become St. Augustine

September 18             Marches troops north to attack Fort Caroline

September 20             Captures Fort Caroline

September 29             Menendez puts French Protestants to death at Mantanzas

 

1566    April 19                      First Fort burned in St. Augustine by Indians

 

1566-1568                             Second Fort and City moved to Anastasia Island

 

1566-1572                             Jesuits in Florida

 

1566    July                             Third Fort

 

1568    April 25                      French destroy Fort San Mateo (old Fort Caroline)

 

1571                                       Fourth Fort built

 

1573                                       Code of regulations for Plazas called Leyes de Las Indias

 

1577-89                                 Pedro Menendez Marques, Governor 

 

1577                                       Indian attack destroys town

 

1579                                       Fifth Fort built

 

1580                                       Governor Pedro Menendez Marques officially reports the discovery of stone

 

1585     July 27                      Sir Walter Raleigh’s Colony of Roanoke started

 

1586                                       Sixth Fort started – San Juan del Pinillo

 

1586     June 6-12                  Drake raid on St. Augustine – saved by African Juan Fernandez. (The Boazio map created)

 

1586     July                            Seventh Fort started – San Marcos

 

1587                                       Franciscan mission church erected at Pueblo Nombre de Dios

 

1588                                       Construction begins on the Franciscan Monastery (Convento de San Francisco)

 

1594-95                                 Governor Martinez Avendano

 

1596-98?                               Stone power magazine at wooden fort.

 

1594      June 10                     first existing recorded baptism in Saint Augustine:  Maria, daughter of Juan Jimenez de la Cueva and of Maria Melendez, his wife.

 

1597-1603                             Governor Gonzalo Mendez de Canzo

 

1597                                       First Hospital in America built at Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude)

 

1589     September 13            Philip III, King of Spain

1621     March 31    

 

1598                                       First Government house started

 

1599                                       fire 

 

1599     September 2              Hurricane

 

1602                                       Hearings Conducted to decide whether or not to abandon St. Augustine

 

1604                                       Eighth Fort Constructed

 

1605                                       Bishop Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano conducted first Episcopal visit to St. Augustine.

 

1607     May 14                      Jamestown Founded

 

1620     December 21            Plymouth Founded

 

1621     March 31                  Philip IV, King of Spain

1665     September 17

 

1621                                       Thirty Years War

1648   October 24                  Treaty of Westphalia

 

1633-38                                 Governour Louis de Horrutiner

 

1638                                       Major Storm hits St. Augustine

 

1653                                       Ninth Fort Constructed

 

1655                                       Governor Don Diego de Robelledo

 

1665     September 17            Charles II “el Hechizado”, King of Spain

1700     November 1 

 

1668                                       Pirate Robert Searles raids St. Augustine

 

1670     April                          Carolina Founded – Charles Towne

 

1670                                       Treaty of Madrid sets the boundary to 10 miles north of the Savannah River with the English

 

1671     July 6                         Sergeant Major Manuel de Cendoya Governor and captain general of Florida

 

1671    August 8                     Quarries opened on Anastasia Island

 

1672    October 2                   first shovelful of dirt on foundation trenches

 

            November 9               first stone laid at Fort

 

1672-1695                             Castillo de San Marcos built

 

1673                                       first Lighthouse built

 

1674                                       Hurricane and flood levels St. Augustine

 

1674                                       Bishop Gabriel Diaz Vara Calderon visits Florida

 

1675                                       powder magazine built of stone

 

1678                                       stone church built at Pueblo Nombre de Dios

 

1680-1687                             Governor Juan Marquez Cabrera

 

1683                                       Free Company of mulatto and black militia formed in St. Augustine

 

1683     March                        English pirates attack St. Augustine from Mosquito inlet (fail)

 

1686                                       Nicholas Agramont (English freebooter) attacks St. Augustine repulsed by Captain Antonio de Arguelles

 

1687    October                      first slaves arrive from English colony of Carolina

 

1693                                       Charles II makes slave sanctuary official

 

1696                                       Sea wall

 

1696    September 23             The Reformation is grounded on the east coast of Florida. Quaker merchant Jonathan Dickinson along with his family, 11 slaves, 8 seamen and Capt. Joseph Kirle were on route to Philadelphia.

 

             November 2              Spanish company of soldiers took the Dickinson and Nantwich party in custody and escorted them north to St. Augustine.

 

             November 19            Arrive in St. Augustine. 5 people died of  exposure enroute.

 

1700     November 16            King Philip V, Spain (1st Time)

1724     January 14 

 

1702    May 4                         War of Spanish Succession (aka Marlborough's Wars, Queen Anne’s War)

 

1713    July 13

 

1702    September                  Siege by Governor James Moore of South Carolina (51 days) (War of Spanish Succession)

 

1702    Oct 27                        English and South Carolinian troops plundered St. Augustine.

 

1704-05                                 Cubo Line built (second 1737)

 

1706                                       Hornwork created – log wall 2 miles north of Cubo from Mission Nombre de Dios to San Sebastian River

 

1713                                       Government house rebuilt of stone

 

1719                                       Rosario Line

 

1719     August 2                   War of the Quadruple Alliance

1720     February 17

 

1724     January 14                Louis I, King of Spain

1724    August 31 

 

1724     September 6              Philip V (2nd time)

1746    July 9

 

1728                                       Raid against St. Augustine by Col John Palmer of South Carolina

 

1733     February                   Savannah and the Colony of Georgia founded

 

1737                                       Rebuilding of the Franciscan Monastery in stone (Convento de San Francisco)

 

1738                                       Castillo modernized (Engineer Pedro Ruiz de Olano more vaults and the watchtower)

                                               1st Fort Mose built

 

1738     March 15                   Governor Manuel de Montiano grants slaves in the militia their freedom and names as their captain an escaped slave named Francisco Menendez.

 

1739     April 9                       British Captain Robert Jenkins lost an ear to a band of Spanish brigands.

 

1739     October 19                War of Jenkins Ear

1742

 

1739-40                                 Wood Gate to the city called “La Leche gate”

 

1740     January                      Tall domed watchtower built on northeast San Carlos bastion

 

1740     May                           Siege by Governor Oglethorpe of Georgia (War of Jenkins Ear)

 

1740      June 26                     Fort Mose recaptured by Spanish (Bloody Mose)

 

1740-42                                 Coquina fort built at Mantanzas

 

1742                                       Spanish failed invasion of Georgia

 

1743                                       Royal Hospital built on Aviles Street

 

1744     March 15                  War of Austrian Succession aka King George’s War

1748     October 18                Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

 

1746     July 9                         Fernando VI, King of Spain

1759     August 10                           

 

1750                                       Friary completed at the Franciscan Monastery (Convento de San Francisco)

 

1752                                       2nd Fort Mose built

 

1754      May 24                     Seven Years War (French and Indian)

1763     February 10

 

1755                                       Fort Picolata rebuilt with a two-story coquina stone tower and a Spanish-style battlemented flat roof for cannons and surrounded with a moat and stockade.

 

1755-56                                 Engineer Pedro de Brozas y Garay completes the rest of the Castillo vaults, placed royal arms over the main gate.

 

1759     August 10                 Charles III, King of Spain

1788    December 14                        

 

July 21, 1763                 End of the First Spanish Period (close of the Seven Years War or the French and Indian War)

 

1763-1783                             British Period

 

1764     January 21                 Last Spanish ship leaves St. Augustine

 

1764     August 29                  James Grant first Gov arrives

 

1764     October 31                Grant’s inauguration as Governor

 

1768     April 17                     Minorcians sailed for New Smyrna from Gibraltar

 

1768     June 26                      Minorcians arrive in St. Augustine

 

1768     August 19                  First revolt of the Minorcians at New Smyrna

 

1771    May 9                         John Moultrie becomes acting Governor

 

1773     April 22                     Grant resigns as governor

 

1774                                       Patrick Tonyn appointed governor

 

1776-1781                             American Revolution

 

1777     June                           first Minorcians flee to St. Augustine

 

1777    November 9               Minorcians with Father Camps arrive in St. Augustine

 

1783     January 20                Treaty of Paris signed

 

1783-1821                      Second Spanish Period

 

1784     June 26                      Fleet arrives from Havana carrying Gov. Vizente Manuel de Zespedes

 

1784     July 12                       Change of Flags takes place

 

1784     July 13                       Father Camps officiates at the Te Deum

 

1785                                       Chapel entrance at the Castillo de San Marcos by Engineer Mariano de la Rocque

 

1785     May                           Father Francisco Troconis y Rosas begins teaching the poor without charge.

 

1786     December 8               King of Spain orders a new house of worship to be built in St. Augustine

 

1787                                       Father Hassett opens the first free school for Minorcan children.

 

1788                                       Father Felix Varella born

 

1788     February 13               Government officials order work to begin on Cathedral

 

1790-96                                 Juan Nepomucena de Quesada governor

 

1790     March                        plans approved for the Cathedral

 

1790     May 19                      Father Camps dies (1735 born)

 

1791                                       William Bartram writes Travels.

 

1793     January 13                 Father Narciso Font dies

 

1793     April 12                     Property acquired for Cathedral

 

1793                                       Cornerstone for Cathedral laid

 

1795     June                           invasion by Georgians and disaffected Floridans

 

1796     January                      General Jorge Biassou his wife and 23 followers arrive in St. Augustine.

 

1796     June 5                        Governor, Colonel Don Enrique White

 

1797     December 8               Cathedral dedicated

 

1800     May 20                      Permission given to bury Dr. Father Camps in Cathedral

             May 27                      Permission given to bury Father Font in Cathedral

 

1801      July 14                      General Jorge Biassou (Hispaniola) dies in St. Augustine

 

1803     April 8                       Don Miguel Ysnardy (Iznardy) dies and is buried in Cathedral

 

1804                                       Bishop Augustin Verot – first Bishop of St. Augustine

1876

 

1808                                       Current City Gate built by Engineer Manuel de Hita

 

                                               Santa Domingo Redoubt 57 feet by 72 feet

 

1809     October 27                President James Madison ordered the annexation of the western part of West Florida.

 

1810                                       Buckingham Smith

1870

 

1810                                       Republic of West Florida

 

1811    Oct                             Hurricane – damages Government House

 

1812     March 13                   Georgians and Floridians declare the Republic of East Florida beginning of Patriots War

 

1812     June                           Sebastian Kindelan Governor of Florida

 

1813                                       Spanish Constitution Monument erected

 

1813     May                           Florida abandoned by American regular troops

 

1814     Nov 7                        Andrew Jackson attacked and captured Pensacola, Florida, defeating the Spanish and driving out a British force.

 

1817     June 29                      Gregor McGregor proclaims the Green Flag Republic in Fernandina

 

1817     Nov 20                      1st Seminole War began in Florida.

 

1818                                       City  Gate completed with addition of stone guardhouses and pomegranate decorations by Francisco de Cortazar

 

1818   April 18                       A regiment of Indians and blacks was defeated at the Battle of Suwanna ending the 1st Seminole War.

 

1818 (December 14) -            General William Wing Loring

1886 (December 30)

 

1819 February 22                  Onis-Adams Treaty

1821 February 22                  ratified by both countries      

 

1819                                       Sarah Mather

1892

 

1820                                       George Fairbanks

1906 (August 3)

 

1821   June 4                 American Period in Florida – Fort Mantanzas turned over to Americans

           July 10               Exchange of Flags

 

1821                                       Mexico gains independence

 

1821                                       Union Hotel started (Ward House)

 

1821   July 7                           Andrew Jackson becomes the governor of Florida.

 

1821    July 22                         Mayor - Gabriel Guillermo Perpall (July 22-Aug 1821)

 

1821    August 27                    James Grant Forbes, Mayor (to Nov 4, 1822)

 

1821     October 7                  Rev. Andrew Fowler conducts the first Episcopal services in St. Augustine Florida

 

1821                                       Huguenot Cemetery built

 

1822                                       Dr. William H. Simmons publishes Notices of East Florida

 

1822     March 30                   Congress combines East and West Florida into the Florida Territory.

 

1822   May 27                        Andrew Jackson resigns as Governor of Territory of Florida

 

1822     November 4              Mayor-   Waters Smith

 

1823                                       Treaty of Moultrie Creek (confined Seminoles to reservation)

 

1823                                       Charles Vignoles publishes Observations Upon the Floridas

 

1823     February 28               Joshua M Glenn becomes the first Methodist minister exclusively appointed to Florida (St. Augustine).

 

1823     November 4              Mayor - Thomas H Penn 

 

1824                                       General Edmund Kirby-Smith born  (first infant baptized in Trinity Episcopal)

 

1824                                       Market built in current location on plaza.

 

1824                                       Watchtower becomes Florida’s first lighthouse with Juan Andreau as the first lightkeeper

 

1824     June 10                      Presbyterian Church formed – Dr. William McWhir first pastor

 

1824     November 2              Mayor - Bernardo Segui 

 

1825    June 23                       Trinity Episcopal Church

 

1825     November 18            Mayor - William Reynolds 

 

1825-1890                             Presbyterian Meeting House on St. George Street.

 

1826     July 18                       Mayor - Davis Floyd, Pro-Tem (July 18, 1826)

 

1826    October 9                    lifespan of Franklin Smith builder of Villa Zorayda and Casa Monica

1911     October

 

1826     November 16             Mayor - Waters Smith

 

1827 – 1895                           General Stephen Vincent Benet  (Union)

 

 

1827                                       Ralph Waldo Emerson in St. Augustine

 

1827     November                 Mayor - John Drysdale until August 10, 1830

 

1828                                       First internment in St. Augustine’s National Cemetery

 

1829-1876                             Bishop Jean-Pierre Augustine Verot

 

1829                                       Bethel Methodist Church (near Monson)

 

1830                                       Trinity Episcopal Church constructed

 

1830     January 2                   Henry Flagler - Born to Isaac Flagler (died July 1876) and Elizabeth Caldwell Morrison (died                         

                                               1861)

 

1830     November 11            Mayor - E. B. Gould

 

1831     January                     Florida Education Association formed in Tallahassee

 

1831     November                 Mayor - John Gray Jr.

 

1832     November                  Mayor - Joseph L. Smith 

                                                

1832     March 31                   Ordinance for a Free School passes St. Augustine City Council

 

1833-34                                 Government house renovated with the designs of Robert Mills

 

1833                                       Florida House Hotel built

 

1833     November 14            Mayor - Antonio Alvarez (Nov 14, 1833-1835)

 

1835-1842                             Second Seminole War

 

1835                                       freeze destroys Oranges

 

1835                                       Florida House built

 

1835     November                  Mayor - Dr. Frederick Weeden (Nov 1835-1836)

                                              

1835     December 8               Dade Massacure

 

1836     June 21                      General Winfield Scott relieved of command

 

1836     November 17            Mayor - E. B. Gould (Nov 17, 1836- Dec. 30, 1837)

 

1837     October 27                Osceola seized under a white flag and imprisoned at Fort Marion

 

1837     November 9              Wildcat and 19 followers escape Fort Marion 

 

1838     January                       Mayor - Bernardo Sequi, Pro-Temp (Jan 1838)

 

1838     January 27                  Mayor - Francis L. Dancy ( reelected Nov 14, 1839)

 

1838     January  30                Osceola dies at Fort Moultrie in South Carolina (born 1804)

 

1838     May 15                      Brigadier General Zachary Taylor assumes command

 

1839                                       Dr. Andrew Anderson

1924     December 2

 

1839                                       Construction Begins on Markland

 

1840     November 10             Mayor - Antonio Alvarez (Nov 10, 1840)

Clerk of Courts - P B Dumas (1840-1853)

 

1841     November 10            E. B. Gould, Mayor of St. Augustine

 

1842   March 23                     Alexander W. McClure Acting Bishop of the Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine to July 13, 1845

 

1842     November 17            Abraham Dupont, Mayor of St. Augustine (Oct. 30, 1843 resigned)

 

1842     August 13                  Andrew Guy and other slaves escape by boat

 

1843     November                 William Forward, Mayor

 

1843-1923                              Lifespan of George Maynard (painter of murals at the Ponce de Leon Hotel)

 

1844                                       Planters Hotel built

 

1844     November                 E. B. Gould, Mayor

 

Statehood Period

 

1845     March 3                    Florida Statehood (27th State)

 

1845     March 3                    1st Constitution for Florida

 

1845     March 3                    William D. Moseley was elected the new state’s first governor

 

1845     November                 Benjamin A. Putnam, Mayor, City of St. Augustine & ex-officio J. P.

 

1845                                       Jose Simeon Sanchez Sheriff 1845-47

 

1845                                       St. Augustine Fire Company organized – first fire engine purchased

 

1846     November                 Joseph Sanchez, Mayor

 

1847                                       Methodist Episcopal South on St. George Street

 

1847                                       Magnolia Hotel built

 

1847                                       James M. Gould, Sheriff 1847-48

 

1847     November                 Gad Humphreys, Mayor

 

1848                                       Michael Usina, sheriff 1848

 

1848     November                 Joseph M. Hernandez, Mayor

 

1849                                       R. B. Canova, Sheriff 1849-53

 

1849     November                 Mathew Solana, Mayor

 

1850     November                 E. B. Gould, Mayor

 

1850     November 18            James Edmunson Ingram future vice president of the Florida East Coast Railway was born November 18, 1850, at Dartford, in Green Lake County, Wisconsin

 

1851     November                 George Phillips, Mayor

 

1852     May                           Peter C. Zylstra, Mayor

 

1852     July                            Gad Humphreys, Mayor

 

1853     February 25               Father Felix Varella dies

 

1854                                       B A Putnam, Mayor

                                               County Clerk of Courts -         John Drysdale

 

1854                                       Jacob Mickler, Sheriff 1854-55

 

1855                                       Clerk of Courts -          David R. Dunham (1855-1857)

 

1855                                       Paul Sabate, Sheriff 1855-57

 

1855     December 18            Third Seminole War

1858    May 8

 

1856                                       George Fairbanks, Mayor

 

1856                                       Florida Historical Society founded

 

1857                                       A. D. Rogero, Sheriff 1857-61

 

1857     November                 Mathew Solana, Mayor

 

1858                                       Incorporation of the St. Johns Railroad by Dr. John Wescott and others

 

1858                                       George Fairbanks publishes The History and Antiquities of the City of St. Augustine

 

1858     November                 Paul Arnau, Mayor

                                               Clerk of Courts - John Lott Phillips

 

1858     November 8              lifespan of  John Carriere (one of the two architects of the Alcazar and Ponce de Leon)

1911      February 11

 

1859     October 30                Joseph R. Parrott born in Oxford Maine

 

1859                                       Clerk of Courts - David R. Dunham (1859- February 1866)

                                               Sheriff- A. D. Rogero

 

1860    March 1                      lifespan of Thomas Hastings (one of the two architects of the Alcazar and Ponce de Leon)

1929    October 23

 

1860     May 12                      St. Augustine Blues organized. (Officially Florida Independent Blues)

 

1860     November                 Rafael B. Canova, Mayor

 

Civil War Period

1861     January 7                   Confederates take Fort Marion

 

1861     January 10                Florida votes to secede from the United States

 

1861     August 5                    St. Augustine Blues enrolled into Confederate Service

 

1861     November                 Paul Arnau, Mayor

 

1862     March 10                   St. Augustine Blues leave St. Augustine

 

1862     March 11                   Union occupies St. Augustine

 

1862     May 9                        1 South Carolina Regiment organized (33rd USCT)

 

1863     January 1                   President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation (proclamation read in Old Spanish Cemetery)

 

1864                                       William Mickler, Sheriff 1864-65

 

1864    February 20               Battle of Olustee

 

1865    December 18             13th Amendment to the US Constitution passes

 

1866                                       A. D. Rogero, Sheriff 1866-67

 

1866     January                      Samuel Buffington, Mayor

 

1866     June                           Venancio Sanchez, Mayor

 

1866     November                 Mayor - Ramon Canova

Clerk of Courts - John C. Buffington (1866-1867)

 

1867                                       Telegraph line links St. Augustine to Jacksonville and the outside world

 

1867     January                      Sisters of St. Joseph start school in St. Augustine

 

1867     January                      Paul Arnau, Mayor

 

1867     August                       George Burt, Mayor

 

1867     November                 William Van Ness, Mayor

 

1867                                       Clerk of Courts - Fatio Dunham (1867 - August 1868)

 

1868                                       T W Spicegger – druggest

 

1868     December 23             Peabody School Committee organized

 

1869     February 23               Dr. Oliver Bronson becomes first school superintendent of St. Johns County

 

1869     April                          St. Johns County Public School system begins

 

1869     May 25                      Authorization received for the Freedmen’s Bureau to build African-American School for $4,000

 

1869     November 8              Peabody School opens for white students

 

1869     October                     Frank H. Palmer, Mayor

 

1869                                       Clerk of Courts - George W. Atwood

 

1869                                       St. Augustine Hotel built

 

1870     March 11                   Diocese of St. Augustine created with Jean-Pierre Augustin Marcellin Verot as its first Bishop

 

1870     November                 William J. Watkins, Mayor

 

1870                                       Clerk of Courts - Charles D. Lincoln (1870-1874)

 

1871                                       Sheriff - Ramon Hernandez

 

1872                                       Statue erected to Confederate war dead

 

1873                                       Iron rails replace wooden stringers in the St. Johns Railroad

 

1873     November                 Paul Arnau, Mayor

 

1873     December 8               Buckingham-Smith Association feeds first meal

 

1874     October 15                Lighthouse built (162 feet) designed by Paul Pelz

 

1874                                       H. Hernandez, Sheriff 1874-77

 

1875     November                 T. T. Russell, Mayor

 

1875     December                  W. J. Watkins, Mayor

 

1875     May 21                      Kiowas, Comanches, Arapahoes brought to Fort

1878

 

1876                                       Lighthouse Keepers House built

 

1876                                       Sunnyside Hotel built (remains the oldest surviving remnant of a hotel today)

 

1876     November                 T. A. Pacetty, Mayor

 

1877                                       A. N. Pacetti, Sheriff 1877-81

 

1877     January 18                last Federal Troops leave Florida

 

1877     November                 Thomas F. House, Mayor

 

1877                                       Clerk of Courts - Bartolo F. Oliveros (1877-1888)

 

1877    March 5                      C O Reynolds resigns as 2nd School Superintendent

 

1877     March 5                     Thomas W. Russell becomes 3rd School Superintendent

 

1877     May 13                      John More 2nd  bishop of St. Augustine

 

1878     June                           J. S. Relf, Mayor

 

1879                                       U S Grant spends two weeks in town

 

1879     March 13                   Thomas A Pacetti becomes 4th School Superintendent

 

1879     November                 George S. Greeno

 

1880     summer                      first lighthouse slips into Salt Run

 

1880    November 11             Charles F Perpall becomes 5th School Superintendent

 

1881                                       Olivet Methodist Church organized

 

1881                                       Raymond Hernandez, Sheriff 1881-88

 

1881     May 18                      Mary Harkness Flagler died

 

1881     June 8                        death of Clarissa Anderson

 

1881    Fall                              Methodist Episcopal Church organized (Olivet/Grace)

 

1882      January 2                 Standard Oil Trust Formed

 

1882     November                  Charles E. Johnson, Mayor

 

1883                                       Villa Zorada built (modeled after the Alhambra)

 

1883                                       Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Halifax River Railway completed

 

1883      June 5                       Henry Flagler marries Ida Alice Shourds (born July 4, 1848, died July 10, 1930)

 

1883     September                 John G. Long, Mayor

 

1883     November                 E. M. Alba, Mayor

 

1883      December                 Henry Flagler honeymoons to Florida through March 1, 1884 stayed in part at unknown St Augustine

 

1884     Winter                       Olivet Methodist Church constructed corner of Tolomato and King

 

1884     November                 John G. Long, Mayor

 

1884     November 29            Peter Arow becomes 6th Superintendent of St. Johns County Public Schools

 

1884    December                   Florida Deaf and Blind School finished

 

1885                                       San Marco Hotel opens

 

1885                                       Gulf Club organized

 

1885     February 25               Henry Flagler returns to St. Augustine stayed at San Marco Hotel witnessed the celebration of the landing of Ponce de Leon in March 1885

 

1885     April 20                     St. Augustine Gas and Electric Light Company formed

 

1885     December 1               groundbreaking on the Ponce de Leon Hotel

 

1885    December 31              Henry Flagler purchased railroad between Jacksonville and St. Augustine

                                              

1885                                       Ancient City Baptist given land

Florida School for the Deaf and Blind started

Yellow Fever Epidemic

 

1886                                       500 Apaches at Fort

            April 8                         First Apache prisoners left Fort Bowie (Ariz.) for Fort Marion.

            April 16                       First Prisoners arrive

            April 20                       First tents erected on north rampart

            June                             Artesian well drilled in fort parade

            September                   Sisters of St. Joseph taught Apache children at Fort Marion

            September 11              Chatto’s band ordered to Fort Marion

            September 18              Arrive at Fort Marion

            October 26                  Women and children captured with Geronimo arrive at Fort Marion from Texas

            October 30                  First group of Apache students left for Carlisle

            November 7                Last prisoners arrived in St. Augustine

            November 17              Another group of students left Fort Marion for Carlisle, Pa.

            December 21               An organization was formed in St. Augustine to further education of prisoners.

 

1886     November                  Dr. Andrew Anderson, Mayor

 

1887    January                        Five births in Fort Marion, including ‘Coquina’

            March                         Clothing for women prisoners arrive at fort

            March 24                    64 more Indian children left for Carlisle

            March 27                    Apache Indians leave Fort Marion

 

1887                                       Southern Telepone Company erecting poles for its lines

 

1887                                       Castle Warden Built

 

1887                                       Lyon Building completed

 

1887    April 12 (13?)             Cathedral Gutted by Fire

 

1887                                       Market rebuilt on plaza

 

1887    May or June                Alcazar Hotel

 

1887     May                           Henry Flagler sells land to Franklin Smith to build the Casa Monica

 

1887    May 30                       Ponce de Leon finished

 

1887    October 6                   Jenny Louise Flagler married Frederick Hart Benedict

 

1887     November                 George Greeno, Mayor

 

1888                                       H. H. Floyd, Sheriff 1888-89

 

1888     January 1                   Grace Methodist Episcopal Church opens

 

1888     January 10                 Hotel Ponce de Leon openings

 

1888     April 20                     Henry Flagler buys the Casa Monica Hotel with all furnishings, renamed the Cordova.

 

1888     May 22                      Henry Flagler assembles women at Ponce de Leon to discuss plans to build a hospital.

 

1888     November                 W. W. Dewhurst, Mayor

 

1888     December 23             Bishop John More blessed the rebuilt Cathedral

 

1888     December 25             Alcazar opens

                                              

Grace Methodist Episcopal (North) built

 

   1889                                       Clerk of Courts -         James W. Allen (1889-1892)

 

   1889                                       C. J. Perry, Sheriff   1889-97

 

1889    February 9                  Jenny Louise Flagler Benedict gives birth to a baby girl

 

1889    February 22                Casino and Turkish baths open at the Alcazar

 

1889     June                           W. S. M. Pinkham Mayor

 

1890    January 20                  completed bridge across the St. Johns River at Jacksonville

 

1890    March 1                      Alicia Hospital opened.

 

1890    March 16                    Memorial Presbyterian Dedicated

 

1891                                       Old Jail Built

 

1891                                       Florida East Coast Railway Hospital built

 

1891     January 7                    Zora Neale Thurston born

1960

 

1892                                       Last Burial in Tolomato, Hugonout, and Mission Numbre de Dios

 

1892     July                            Jose Marti visits St. Augustine and organizes the Club Padre Varela

 

1892     July                            construction on Kirkside starts

 

1893                                       Granada Hotel built

 

1893    March 1                      Henry Flagler moved into Kirkside

 
1893    March 28                 Edmund Kirby Smith, the last surviving full General of the Confederate Army, died today.  Smith, who was born in St. Augustine on May 16, 1824, was an 1845 graduate of West Point, a veteran of the Mexican-American War, a wounded veteran of Indian fighting, and an instructor of mathematics at West Point.

 

1894-1895                             The Great Freeze

 

1895                                       Wood Bridge completed from King Street to Anatasia Island

 

1895     March 29                   Great Fire in St. Augustine – 60 Houses burned

 

1895    September 13              railroad name changed to Florida East Coast Railway

 

1895                                       Ancient City Baptist Church holds first service

 

1896                                       Clerk of Courts -          David L. Dunham (1896-1900)

 

1896                                       Robert Murray becomes manager of the Ponce de Leon Hotel. He retains this position through 1931

 

1896    April 16                       railroad completed to Miami

 

1897                                       S. E. Davis, Sheriff 1897-1901

 

1897    January 5                    E. H. Reynolds becomes the 8th St. Johns County   Superintendent of Schools

 

1897     June                           Henry Gaillard

 

1898    April 22                      US Declares War on Spain

 

1898     May 26                      first graduation from Florida Deaf and Blind School

 

1898     May 12                      St. Augustine sends two companies of infantry – the St. Augustine Rifles and the St. Augustine Light Infantry to Tampa.          

 

1898    December 10              Spanish-American War ends with Treaty of Paris

 

1899     February 4                Philippines Insurrection begins

 

1899     July                            E. E. Boyce, Mayor

 

1900                                       Work completed on Markland

 

1901                                       C. J. Perry Sheriff, 1901-19

 

1901     January 8                   W. S. M. Pinkham becomes the 9th St. Johns County Superintendent of Schools

 

1901    August 13                   divorce of Henry Flagler to Ida Alice Flagler granted in Florida

 

1901   August 21                    Henry Flagler engaged to Mary Lily Kenan (born June 14, 1867).  He was 71 she was 34.

 

1901   August 24                     Henry Flagler marries Mary Lily Kenan

 

1901    November 27              FEC Railway Hospital Burns

 

1901                                       Clerk of Courts - Wm. F. Forward (1901-1902)

 

1902                                       Clerk of Courts - W. Wallace Snow (1902-1917)

 

1902                                       John Papino last reconstruction African-American City Councilman shot by Marshall Benet in Council Chambers

 

1902                                       William J Kenny consecrated as bishop in the cathedral.

 

1902     July 4                        Theodore Roosevelt declares end of Philippine’s  Insurrection

 

1905    May 29                       Alicia Hospital incorporated

 

1907     June                           Eugene Masters, Mayor

 

1908                                       Henry Flagler builds brick YMCA building

 

1909                                       Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory

 

1909 April 27                       The Florida House of Representatives approved the orange blossom as the official flower of            Florida today.

 

1910    October                       Orange Street School Opened

 

1911    June                             DeWitt Webb, Mayor

 

1912    January 22                   first official train arrives in Key West Florida

 

1913    January 7                     D. D. Corbett becomes the 10th St. Johns County                                                                  Superintendent of Schools

 

1913    January 15                   Henry Flagler falls down stairs at Whitehall

 

1913    May 20                       Henry Flagler dies

 

1913    May 23                       Henry Flagler’s body lies in state at Ponce de Leon before            

                                                 removal to Memorial Presbyterian Church

 

1913    June                             A. W. Corbett, Mayor

 

1914    April 2                         Large fire – Florida House Burned

                                               Capo Bath House Burns

                                               Genovar Opera House

                                               Hotel Clairmont

                                               Monson House

                                               County Court House

 

1914                                       Michael J. Curley appointed Bishop of St. Augustine

 

1914                                       Chapel at Mission of Nombre de Dios restored.

 

1915    July                              James E. Ingraham, Mayor

 

1916                                       Old Alicia Hospital destroyed by fire.

 

1916                                       3 Sisters of St. Joseph are placed under house arrest as white teachers teaching African-Americans in black schools.

 

1917     April 6                       US Declares War on Germany

 

1917   April 28          Flagler County was created today (from St. Johns County) by the Florida 
                                            Legislature.  The county is named in honor of railroad entrepreneur 
                                            Henry Flagler.  County Seat:  Bunnell

 

1917     June 25                     US Troops arrive in France

 

1918     November 11            Armistice signed

 

1918                                       Clerk of Courts -          Obe P. Goode (1918-1936)

 

1919                                       E. E. Boyce, Sheriff 1919-42

 

1919     February 18               death of Dr. Daniel W. Roberts

 

1919     June 28                     Treaty of Versailles signed

 

1920     February                    P. R. Perry, Mayor

 

1920     July 6                         Monument to General William Wing Loring built

 

1921                                       Florida Memorial College moved to St. Augustine

 

1921     January 25                 New Flagler Hospital opened

 

1921     November 11            Anderson Circle dedicated

 

1922                                       Patrick Barry named Bishop of St. Augustine

 

1923     November  11           Statute of Ponce de Leon

 

1923                                       Sons of Israel Synagogue built

 

1924     June 10                      Dr. Anderson writes a letter to city council with purpose of naming new bridge either Ponce de Leon or Bridge of Lions.

 

1924     October 15                Fort Marion and Fort Matanzas designated as National Monuments

 

1925     January 6                   Robert B Meserve becomes the 11th Superintendent of St. Johns County Public Schools

 

1926     January                      J. N. Fogarty, Mayor

 

1926    December 22              Magnolia Hotel burns

 

1927     February 26               Bridge of Lions opens to traffic

             April 1                        Lights turned on bridge

             April 7                       Formal dedication

             May 29                      Mantanzas River Bridge referred to as “Bridge of Lions”

 

1927     July                            J. H. Manucy, Mayor

 

1928                                       First National Bank built

 

1928     January                      Frank D. Upchurch, Mayor

 

1928     July                            Joseph Pearson Greaves dies former manager of the Alcazar Hotel

 

1929      January 8                  C. G. Oldfather becomes the 12th Superintendent of St. Johns County Public Schools

 

1929     January                      George W. Bassett, Mayor

 

1929     April 24                     Wilma Davis ordained as an elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church

 

1932                                       Alcazar Hotel Closes

                                               Cordova closes

 

1933                                       Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published South Moon Under

 

1933      January 3                  D. D. Cobett returns as the 13th Superintendent of St. Johns County Public Schools

 

1933      July 28                      Fort Marion and Fort Mantanzas turned over to the National Park Service

 

1933      May 3                       Robert Murray former manager of the Ponce de Leon dies.

 

1934                                       Zora Neal Hurston publishes Jonah’s Gourd Vine

 

1935                                       Zora Neal Hurston publishes Mules and Men.

 

1936                                       Entrance to the Government House modeling the Chapel at the Castillo built by architects Mellen Clark Greeley and Clyde Harris

 

1936                                       Lens at the Lighthouse changes from kerosene to electricity

 

1937                                       Zora Neal Hurston publishes Their Eyes were Watching God

 

1937     May 23                      John Davison Rockeffeller (97) dies at Ormond Beach.

 

1937     July 12                       death of Clarence K Knotts – former manager of Ponce de Leon and general manager of Flagler Hotel system.

 

1938                                       Visitor Information Center Built

 

1939                                       Marjorie Kennan Rawlings publishes “The Yearling

 

1940                                       Joseph P Hurley named bishop of St. Augustine

 

1941                                       Marjorie Kennan Rawlings marries Norton Baskin, a St. Augustine business man. They buy Castle Warden

 

1942                                       Name of Fort changed from Fort Marion back to Castillo de San Marcos

 

1942                                       J. T. Shepherd, Sheriff 1942-49

 

1942                                       Marjorie Kennan Rawlings publishes “Cross Creek” and “Cross Creek Cookery

 

1942                                       Zora Neale Hurston writes autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road.

 

1945     January 2                   John A. Crookshank becomes the 14th Superintendent of St. Johns County Public Schools

 

1946                                       Otto Lightner purchases Alcazar Hotel

 

1946                                       “The Yearling” produced as a movie (Gregory Peck)

 

1947     January 25                 Al Capone dies of syphilis in Miami Beach.

 

1948     January 1                   Otto Lightner opens Lightner Museum as Lightner Museum of Hobbies

 

1949                                       Potter’s Wax Museum opens

 

1949                                       L. O. Davis Sheriff 1949-1970

 

1950                                       Ripley’s Believe it or Not

 

1950                                       Marjorie Kennan Rawlings publishes “Jacobs Ladder

 

1950     June 9                        Otto C Lightner dies in Chicago

 

1951                                       Gary Cooper in “Distant Drums” filmed at the Castillo

 

1953                                       Old Jail closes

 

1954   September 24              Granada/ Alhambra Hotel burns

 

1955                                       Marjorie Kennan Rawlings publishes “Secret River

 

1955                                       Lighthouse becomes automated

 

1957     January 8                   W. Douglas Hartley, Superintendent of St. Johns County Schools

 

1958     February 25               St. Johns River Community College opened in Palatka

 

1961                                       Henry Thomas arrested at Woolworth’s lunch counter

 

1963    January 13                  Florida East Coast Railroad strike       

 

             March 11                   Vice-President Lyndon B Johnson visits St. Augustine

 

June                            demonstrations at Woolworths, McCrory’s, Service Drugs, and the St. Augustine Civic Center.

 

             July 2                         demonstration at the Tourist Information Center

                                               Demonstration at St. Augustine Beach

 

             July 24                       demonstration at the St. Johns County Jail

 

             August                       Labor Day demonstration on the plaza

 

             September 18            KKK rally beats up Hayling

 

1964    March 25                    Demonstration at Tourist Information Center

 

             March 31                   Mrs. Malcom Peabody arrested at Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge.

Murray High School demonstration at Plaza

 

            May 26                       Dr. King speaks at 1st Baptist

                                              

 

            June 11                       Dr. Martin Luther King arrested at the Monson

 

            June 18                       Swim – in at the Monson Hotel

 

June 25                       Confrontation at St. Augustine Beach

 

July 2                         Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964

 

1965    September 8               Cross Constructed

 

1965     November 16            Walt Disney launches Epcot Center.

 

1966                                       Florida Memorial College moves from St. Augustine

 

1966    October 30                 Dedication of the Cross at Nombre de Dios

 

1967    March                         Hotel Ponce de Leon closed.

 

1968                                       Paul F. Tanner becomes Bishop of St. Augustine

 

1969   May 27                        Walt Disney World construction begans in Florida.

 

1970   May 26                        Cross and Sword made official play of Florida

 

1970                                       St. Johns Public Schools desegregate

 

1970                                       Dudley Garrett, Sheriff 1970-80

 

1971   Oct 1                           Walt Disney World opens in Orlando.

 

1972                                       Cathedral designated a National Historic Landmark

 

1975                                       Statue of Father Camps

 

1976                                       Cathedral designated a Basilica

 

1981                                       Francis O’Loughlin, Sheriff 1981-84

 

1983                                       film “Cross Creek” produced

 

1985                                       Neil Perry, Sheriff 1985 forward

 

1999    December 10               Casa Monica reopens