1700

1702: Anthony Aston, alias-Mat Medley, a notable English musician, joins English Governor James Moore in his pillage of St. Augustine.

1702: After Governor James Moore of South Carolina fails to capture the fort at St. Augustine he turns to the destruction of the missions in Apalachee and inland Timucua.

1702-04: massive Carolinian raids on the Apalachee and Timucuan missions in northern Florida effectively destroy the mission system west of the St. Johns River.

1710: With the exception of a few stragglers, the native Indian people of Florida are virtually annihilated.

1740: Muskogee-speaking sedentary farmers begin to settle near present-day Gainesville, Florida.

1738: The Spanish established Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first free African community in America, to provide the first defense against the British. Located two miles north of St. Augustine, its remains may be seen today.

1739: The largest slave uprising in the history of North America takes place near Charleston, SC. The Spanish are blamed – not the working conditions of those who rebelled.

1740: The British attack St. Augustine under General George Oglethorpe. Fort Mose is captured.

1743: Anthony Aston, alias Mat Medley advertises his collection of "Negro Songs" at Goodman's Fields in England. It is a collection of tunes that he probably heard in Florida and South Carolina. These songs, along with those of Charles Dibdin, were forerunners of the American Minstrel show songs.

1751: The French take Grenada from the Caribs.

1752: Spaniards rebuild Fort Mose. Africans established in St. Augustine, return to their military/agrarian lifestyle. Many of the men married Indian women and still others hunted and traded with Indian allies.

1760: The first Jews settle in Pensacola

1760: Our Lady of Milk and Good Childbirth (Nuestra Señora de La Leche y Buen Parto) a devotional image is worshipped in her sanctuary outside the walls of the presidio of Saint Augustine. Now reproduced in numerous copies throughout the Americas, Our Lady of Milk and Good Childbirth is the center of the oldest cult to the Virgin in United States.

1762: The English take Havana.

1763: The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War and Florida is ceded to Great Britain.

The entire Catholic populations of St. Augustine and Pensacola, with the less than 100 surviving Christian Indians, depart for Cuba and Mexico with all of their records, liturgical objects, and furnishings. The settlement and fort at Mose is abandoned.

1763: Spanish officials count 350 slaves and 80 free blacks and mulattos evacuating with the Spaniards.

1763: The British take St.Vincent and Dominica. The English language, legal and economic system is overlaid upon that of the Caribs and the French.

1763: The "Eligio de la Puente" report mentions the invasion of Creek people, who had overrun all of peninsular Florida, even reaching Key West. Those who would later be called the Seminole and Mikasuki establish themselves in the north-central interior of Florida.

1765: Muskogee speaking people are referred to as "Seminole" in British documents.

1765: A census concludes that Puerto Rico's population has reached 45,000.

1770: Two marches are published in London for the British Sixtieth Regiment stationed in Florida.

1777: William Beckford describes Jamaican instruments such as flutes, the bender (percussion), the cotter, and gamba made of stone and wood, also, an animal jawbone, which he finds disagreeable. Florida children of slave families play the jawbone, tambourine and drum while dancing.

1777: Some seven hundred Minorcans and Greeks seek sanctuary in St. Augustine where they settle empty buildings or vacant lots north of the plaza, known as the "The Quarter." As a result, Florida becomes the cradle of the Greek Orthodox Community in the Americas.

1780: Jews settle in St. Augustine but are not numerous enough to form the minyan required for religious worship.

1784: The British evacuate Florida but the Minorcans remain. More than five thousand of their descendants can now be counted in North Florida.

1784: The Spaniards return to Florida. Anglo immigrants from Georgia and the Carolinas come southward into Florida with their families and slaves.

1787: More than half of the plantations have fewer than four African slaves.

1791: In August, the first successful Black uprising begins in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) on the island of Hispaniola. Initiated by Boukman, a voodoo houngan, this marks the beginning of civil war between the black dominated north and the mulatto dominated south.

1791: French planters exiled from Haiti move to Oriente in Cuba, bringing improved sugar industry techniques, which stimulate the importation of slaves.

1793: 5,000 Caribs surrender to the English on St. Vincent.

1795: Free black militia engage in expeditionary forces of Americans when men from Georgia invade Spanish Florida hoping to make Florida part of the United States.

1796: Toussaint L'Ouverture, an educated herb doctor and military man, emerges as the leader of former Haitian slaves in the north. He restores order, ends the massacres, and restores some of Saint Domingue's former prosperity.

1797: The British move the remaining Island Caribs to Central America where they merge with escaped African slaves and become known as Black Caribs or Garifuna. Their descendants still live there today.