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The Spanish in Florida originally introduced sheep to the New World, but this development never quite reached the North, and there they were introduced by the Dutch and English.
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* 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida.
* 1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
* 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
* 1704 – The Battle of Ayubale takes place, leading to the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
Monroe sparked a constitutional controversy when, in 1817, he sent General Andrew Jackson to move against Spanish Florida to pursue hostile Seminole Indians and punish the Spanish for aiding them.
Relations with Spain over the purchase of Spanish Florida proved to be troublesome, especially after Andrew Jackson invaded that territory on what he believed to be the president's authorization, which Monroe later denied giving.
" He also was concerned about the security implications of a Spanish holding lying a few miles off the coast of Florida.
On September 21, 1529, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón commanded the Spanish ship Florida, on his second attempt to recross the Pacific from the Moluccas.
* 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.
In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida.
In the southeast, the English Province of Carolina mounted an expedition against St. Augustine in Spanish Florida that failed, and conducted numerous raids against Spanish-allied natives, decimating their population.
By the 1540s Indians along the coast of Florida, where many of the Spanish treasure ships wrecked, were diving on the wrecks and recovering significant amounts of gold and silver.
* September 17 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida ( b. 1519 )
* September 6 – Spanish treasure fleet sinks off Marquesa Key in the straights of Florida Atocha, Margarita, and Rosario most heavily laden treeasure ships found in 20th century
* In Spanish Florida, the Cofa Mission at the mouth of the Suwannee River disappears.
* September 4 – The Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands on modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault.
* June 26 – War of Jenkins ' Ear – Siege of Fort Mose: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries storms Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose, Florida.
* February 15 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida ( d. 1574 )
In 2011, Wisconsin Congressman and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan gave the English Republican response from the House Budget Committee hearing room, while Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen delivered the Spanish response.
In 1869, Spanish cigar manufacturer Vicente Martinez Ybor moved his Principe de Gales ( Prince of Wales ) operations from the important cigar manufacturing center of Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida to escape the turmoil of the Ten Years ' War.
* October 10 – Siege of St. Augustine opens: English forces besiege St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
* October 27 – English troops plunder St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
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The word " Mexico " as spoken in its original Nahuatl, and by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest, was pronounced originally with a " sh " sound (" Mesh-ee-co "), as opposed to current pronunciation, and was transcribed with an " x " as was the usage in Spanish at the time.
It has been suggested that the term flamenco may have originally been a Spanish colloquialism for the dance's resemblance to the movements of the flamingo.
However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish explorers led Saint Kitts to be named San Cristobal ( Saint Christopher ), a name originally applied to Saba 20 miles north.
* April 27 – Cebu City ( originally named San Miguel ) is established by López de Legazpi, becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Founded in 1548 by the Spanish conquistadors at the site of the Native American settlement, Laja, the full name of the city was originally Nuestra Señora de La Paz ( meaning Our Lady of Peace ).
Minuit's Walloon family, originally from the French-speaking city of Tournai in modern day Belgium, was among those Protestants who migrated away from suppression under the Roman Catholic government of the Spanish Netherlands.
The Bernoulli family came originally from Antwerp, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands, but emigrated to escape the Spanish persecution of the Huguenots.
The terms criollo and crioulo were originally qualifiers used throughout the Spanish and Portuguese colonies to distinguish the members of an ethnic group that were born and raised locally from those who immigrated as adults.
* ager " field " > campus, originally " wild field " ( French / Romansh champ, Italian / Spanish / Portuguese campo, Occitan / Catalan camp, Romanian câmp ; but Galician agra, agrela " common field ", Romanian dial.
The island was originally named Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held by Spanish Commander of the Nootka Sound settlement Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British Naval Captain George Vancouver on Nootka Sound in 1792, to find a solution to the Nootka Crisis.
Their name comes from the Spanish word cimarrones, which originally referred to a domestic animal that had reverted to the wild.
Spanish submarine G-7 was originally U-573, a Type VIIC submarine of the German Kriegsmarine.
Mission La Purisima Concepción, or La Purisima Mission ( originally La Misión de La Purísima Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María, or The Mission of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary ) is a Spanish mission in Lompoc, California.
Mission La Purisima was originally established at a site known to the Chumash people as Algsacpi and to the Spanish as the plain of Rio Santa Rosa, one mile south of Lompoc.
According to this version, the sauce was originally known as " salsa mahonesa " in Spanish and " maonesa " in Catalan ( as it is still known in Menorca ), later becoming mayonnaise as it was popularized by the French.
The English name is adopted from the Spanish, originally alfalfez, which in turn is derived from the Arabic al-fisfisa " fresh fodder ".
Eusko Gudariak ( originally spelt Euzko Gudariak, " Basque Soldiers ") was the republican anthem of the Eusko Gudarostea, the army of the Basque Autonomous Government during the Spanish Civil War.
Mérida was named after the Spanish town of the same name, originally ( in Latin ) Augusta Emerita ( see Mérida, Spain ).
The Seventeen Provinces were originally held by the Dukes of Burgundy of the House of Valois and later by the Habsburgs, first by the Spanish and then Austrian line.
A wealthy nobleman, William originally served the Habsburgs as a member of the court of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
This usage of the term comes originally from Latin America and the Spanish term " testimonio " when it emerged from human rights tribunals, truth commissions, and other international human rights instruments in countries such as Chile and Argentina.
The Spanish originally called one of the tributaries of the Sacramento River El Rio de las Plumas or the " River of Feathers.
Throughout the colonial era, most of the Spanish colonial nobility based in Lima were originally from Castile.
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