Pinellas County

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Pinellas County
Clearwater

• Age of Exploration

Created by Patricia A. Whissel
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1513
Ponce de Leon from Spain discovers Florida. The
name Florida means full of flowers.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1521
Ponce de Leon lands on the WEST COAST of
Florida.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1528
Panfilo de Navarez from Spain explores
TAMPA BAY.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1528
Navarez is searching for gold.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1528
Navarez has 5 ships.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1528
Navarez has 600 soldiers, 60 horses, and packs of
dogs.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1528
Navarez has his soldiers ransack the Native
American village.The Indians then sent them north
to find gold.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1528
Navarez never returned to Spain. They ended up
eating their horses and building boats from
trees. Only 4 survived.
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The Age of Exploration
About A.D. 1530
Juan Ortiz, age 18, is sent from Spain to find
Navarez.
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The Age of Exploration
About A.D. 1530
Ortiz goes with another and finds the Native
American village Navarez had visited. The friend
is killed, but Ortiz is spared because of the
chiefs daughter, Ulele. He becomes a slave.

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The Age of Exploration
About A.D. 1530
Ortiz angers the chief. Again Ulele saves him,
taking him to the village of Macoso.
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The Age of Exploration
About A.D. 1530
Ortiz and Macoso become friends. Ortiz learns to
speak and live as a Native American.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1539
Hernando de Soto arrives from Spain with the
largest fleet ever.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1539
Hernando de Soto lands near what is now Safety
Harbor, then moves north to search for gold.

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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1540
Hernando de Soto uses Ortiz as a guide.Ortiz
helps the Spanish and Native Americans become
friends.
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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1541
Hernando de Soto went as far as the Mississippi
River. He died and was buried in the river.

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The Age of Exploration
1600-1757
During these years Pinellas was uninhabited. The
Native Americans had died in wars with the
Spanish and from diseases such as smallpox and
measles.

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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1757
Don Francisco Maria Celi was sent by Spain to map
the west coast of Florida.

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The Age of Exploration
A.D. 1757
Don Francisco Maria Celi labeled it Punta de
Pinal which means Point of Pines.

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This is nowPinellas County.