| Date |
Event |
Trail Link |
| 1674 |
British lead slave raids on Spanish
mission-based Indians |
 |
| 1713 |
Spain invites Lower Creeks to
Florida |
|
| 1714-16 |
Yamassee War takes place in
Carolina |
|
| 1720 ca |
Fugitive blacks found living with
Creeks in Florida |
 |
| 1728 |
British enlist Creeks and Cherokees to recover
slaves |
|
| 1763-84 |
Seminole country becomes destination for black
runaways |
|
| 1771 |
British agent first meets "Seminolies" |
 |
| 1776-83 |
British enlist Seminole Indians
as allies |
|
| 1778 |
More Indian bands arrive in
Florida |
|
| 1785 |
King Payne becomes head of Alachua
Seminoles |
|
| 1787 |
Continental Congress tries to recover Florida
slaves |
|
| 1790 |
Treaty of New York signed with
Creeks |
|
| 1804 |
Osceola born |
|
| 1812-13 |
Patriot War fails to seize
Florida for U.S. |
|
| 1813 |
Seminoles settle on Suwannee
River |
|
| 1814 |
Battle of Horseshoe Bend ends
Creek War |
|
| 1814 |
Mikasuki Red Stick refugees enter
Florida |
|
| 1816 |
U.S. blows up Negro Fort |
|
| 1817 |
1st Seminole War officially
begins |
|
| 1818 |
Jackson drives blacks and Indians from
Suwannee |
|
| 1821 |
U.S. Agent visits Seminoles |
|
| 1823 |
Treaty of Moultrie Creek isolates
Seminole lands |
|
| 1826 |
Seminole delegation visits Washington
D.C. |
|
| 1829 |
Andrew Jackson becomes President |
|
| 1830 |
Indian Removal Act passes |
|
| 1832 |
Treaty of Payne's Landing initiates removal
crisis |
|
| 1834 |
Osceola leads opposition to
removal |
|
| 1835 |
2nd Seminole War begins |
|
| 1837 |
Battle of Okeechobee |
|
| 1838 |
U.S. rejects Jesup's peace plan
for Seminoles |
|
| 1838-42 |
Seminole holdouts never surrender, remain in
Florida |
|
| 1840 |
Zachary Taylor uses bloodhounds on
Seminoles |
|
| 1841 |
Coacoochee surrenders |
|
| 1842 |
Second Seminole War ends |
|
| 1842 |
Creeks claim Seminole lands out
west |
|
| 1844 |
Creeks try to kidnap Black Seminoles in the Indian
Territory |
|
| 1844 |
Coacoochee leads delegation to
Washington |
|
| 1845 |
Jesup brings Seminole case before
President |
|
| 1845 |
New treaty keeps Seminoles under Creek
jurisdiction |
|
| 1846-49 |
Coacoochee envisions
confederation out west |
|
| 1849 |
Micanopy dies |
|
| 1849 |
Seminole allies under Coacoochee
flee to Mexico |
|
| 1850-51 |
Comanches attack Black Seminole
parties |
|
| 1851-54 |
Seminole allies protect Mexico from Apaches &
Comanches |
|
| 1855 |
Third Seminole War takes place in Florida |
|
| 1856 |
Seminoles become a separate nation from
Creeks |
|
| 1857 |
Coacoochee dies in smallpox
epidemic |
|
| 1859 |
Seminole Indians in Mexico return to Indian
Territory |
|
| 1861 |
Seminoles of Oklahoma work with
Confederacy |
|
| 1873 |
Scouts aid Mackenzie raid on
Kickapoos |
|
| 1873-81 |
Scouts help pacify West Texas
frontier |
|
| 1874 |
Scouts aid Red River War with
Comanches |
|
| 1881 |
Scouts lead last major Indian raid in Texas
history |
|
| 1881 |
Texans lionize Lt. Bullis |
|
| 1907 |
Seminole rolls close |
|
