Before the arrival of Europeans in America, the peninsula was inhabited for millennia by the Indians Timucua (disappeared in the XVIII century), the Calusa and Seminole. Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon landed here in 1513, declared a region of the Spanish crown and hold it narёk la tierra florida ( «blooming earth"). The first city on the peninsula was founded in 1564 in San Augustine (now St. Augustine). The Treaty of Paris, Britain Florida bartered from the King of Spain to Havana, but ceded the Spanish peninsula by the results of the American War of Independence.

 

In the XVIII century. Muskogee and Yemassee made devastating raids on Florida, the victims were mostly local Indian tribes, completely disappeared (the remains were moved by the Spaniards in Cuba).

 

After the invasion of Florida US troops under the command of Andrew Jackson in 1818, Spain in 1819 was forced to give up her USA. The Treaty entered into force on 22 February. In 1845, Florida became the 27th state of the USA.

 

The war with the Seminole Indians (1835-1842 gg.) Over the eviction of most Indians in Oklahoma. During the Civil War, Florida was part of the Confederacy.