 US President Jackson, seeking to ensure the US had a Pacific Coast presence and usage by the US Navy of San Francisco Bay, began to attempt to force Mexico to cede territory east of the Rio Grande, also north of 37 latitude, so as to give California to the US.
4/9/1781. In California, the Spanish founded a tiny village near San Gabriel. They called it Los Angeles.
29/6/1776, San Francisco (Spanish for "Saint Francis") was founded, when colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named after St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away.
Appendix 6 – Florida
1/10/1971. Disneyworld opened in Florida.
23/5/1937, John D Rockefeller, American philanthropist and founder of the Standard Oil Company, died in Florida aged 97.
15/2/1933, The Italian immigrant and anarchist Guiseppe Zangara failed in an attempt to assassinate President Franklin D Roosevelt in Bayfront Park, Miami.
28/7/1896, The City of Miami was incorporated. It had been a small Indian trading post with two dwellings, a storehouse, and a small fort when the railway was built there in 1896. On incorporation it had a population of 260. By 1910 it had a population of 5,471; by 1920, 29,571.
1858, Only about 150 Seminole Indians remained in the remoter areas of Florida after a war on them (Second Seminole War) by Federal soldiers. Between 1835 and 1842, some 3,000 sldiers were killed, and only some 300 Seminoles escaped death or deportation. The Army returned again in 1855 in the Third Seminole War.
3/3/1845, Florida became the 27th State of the Union.
28/12/1835. Over 100 US troops were killed by Seminole Indians resisting attempts to drive them out of Florida.
25/12/1837, US troops routed Seminole Indians at Lake Okeechobee, Florida.
22/2/1819. The USA annexed all of Florida from Spain.
22/6/1564, The French settlement of Fort Caroline was founded in Florida.
8/4/1513. The Spaniard, Juan Ponce de Leon, claimed Florida, which he believed to be an island, for Spain. He called it Florida because of the abundance of wild flowers there and because it was discovered close to the religious festival Pasqua de Flores.