JANELAS DO MUNDO - Cesar Augusto

1513 - Sailing from Puerto Rico, Spanish

claim Florida.

1565 - Spanish found St. Augustine and destroy

French at Fort Caroline and Matanzas inlet.
1672 - Ground is broken on October 2 for
Castillo de San Marcos.
1695 - Castillo de San Marcos (curtain walls, bastions,
living quarters, moat, ravelin and sea wall)
is finished in August.
1702 - War of the Spanish Succession pits
Spain and France against Austria, Great Britain
and others. Costal Georgian missions are
destroyed by Carolineans en route to
St. Augustine. Carolineans occupy and burn
St. Augustine but the Castillo successfully
resist their siege.
1738 - Spanish governor at St. Augustine
grants freedom to runway British slaves.
Blacks families settle at new town
called Fort Mose.
1740 - St. Augustine successfully endure
siege by British, Georgian and
South Carolinean forces.
Spanish attack and defeat British
Highland troops camped at
Fort Mose.
1741 - 42 Fort Matanzas is built to block
southern approach to
St. Augustine.
1756 - 62 Fort Mose rebuilt in masonry. Earth
works at Mose extended to complete
northern-most defense.
1763 - Peace of Paris gives Florida to
Great Britain in exchange for
La Habana.
1783 - Peace of Paris recognizes independence
of the United States and returns
Florida to Spain.
1821 - Spain cedes Florida to
the United States.
1825 - Castillo de San Marcos renamed

Fort Marion.

1924 - Fort Marion and Fort Matanzas are

proclaimed national monuments.