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| Book cover | Autor | Title | Description |
| Bild | Autor | Leer | Beschreibung |
| Date | Event | Tribe | Chief |
18 May 1539  | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - Hernando de Soto left Havana with 9 ships and sailed to Florida. .   | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
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| Hernando de Soto. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto | |||
| 25 May 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - Hernando de Soto spots Florida for the first time. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| 26 May 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's ships reached Charlotte Harbor through the Boca Grande Pass. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| 1 June 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - The 9 ships of De Soto's expedition landed in Tippecanoe Bay, about 6 miles west of Port Charlotte. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| 1 June 1539Nicht erkannter Quellenhinweis | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - When De Soto arrived, there were Indians living in a village west of Ward Lake. The chief of the village was called Mococo. | Calusa | Mococo |
| Bis Mitte Juli 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army camped for six weeks at a place called \`Ucita\`, about three miles west of Port Charlotte. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| 1 June 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - When De Soto arrived, there were Indians living on Hog Island. When De Soto sent his soldiers to the village shortly after his arrival, the Indians fled. | Calusa | - |
| 15 July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army left Ucita and marched via the village of Chief Mococo to Lake Myakka. De Soto left about 100 infantrymen behind in Ucita. De Soto divided his cavalry into 4 companies of 90 men each. The infantry was divided into 3 divisions. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| 17 July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army reached Lake Myakka. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army reached Lake St. John on the western edge of what is now the Upper Myakka River Watershed. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - While exploring the surrounding area, the Spaniards came across Juan Ortiz, who was captured by the Tocobaga Indians in 1528. Ortiz served De Soto as a translator. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | Mococo |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army was camped in the village of Paracoxi, south of Brewster. The Indians had left the village before the Spaniards arrived. The village had large supplies of corn, pumpkins and sweet tubers. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army was camped at Tocaste, south of Lake Hancock. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army was camped at the Great Swamp between the present-day villages of Thonotosassa and Zephyrhills. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army was camped near Ocale, in the area of today's Dade City. Between the high mountains of Dade City lay large cornfields. The Spaniards harvested all the corn that could feed De Soto's army for about three months. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army was camped at Cholupala (River of Discord) near the present-day village of Dunnellon. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army was camped at Caliquen, west of Chiefland. De Soto captured the chief, who lived in his hut on a hill 3 miles to the north and could thus look down on his village. De Soto stayed in Caliquen for several weeks. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| July 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army crossed the Suwannee River, marched further north and camped in the village of Uriutina, now Cross City. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| September 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army camped in the village of Napituca - Vitachuco after attacking and conquering it. Many villagers were captured and executed. The women were spared and kept as slaves. De Soto remained in Napituca until around the end of September. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| End of September 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army left Napituca with all the Indian slaves in search of his winter camp. After two days he reached Uzachil, today's Tallahassee. The inhabitants of Uzachil fled. About 100 men and women were captured, put in irons and used as porters. De Soto's men found corn, pumpkins and beans in the village. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| Begin of October 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto's army camped in the Apalache Swamp area, near the Apalachicola River. In the days that followed, the troops crossed the river. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| Begin of October 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - After crossing the Apalachicola River, De Soto marched further west. At what is now Merritts Mill Point, the troops were attacked by Appalachee Indians as they crossed a gorge. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| Begin of October 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto reached the Appalachian Indian village of Iviahica. The Indians had already left the village when De Soto arrived. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| Begin of October 1539 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto spent the winter of 1539-1540 in the Appalachee Indian village of Iviahica, which is now the De Soto Site Historic State Park in Tallahassee, Florida. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| 3 March 1540 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto left his winter camp in Iviahica and marched further north. | Calusa Tequesta Timucuan Creek Tocobaga Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| 5 March 1540 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto lagerte bei Capachequi am Chattahoochee River in Georgia. | Creek Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| 11 March 1540 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - After almost two days of traveling across the Chattahoochee River, De Soto reached Capachiqui in the Blakely, Georgia area. | Creek Apalachee (Lower Creek) | - |
| June 1540 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - De Soto encountered a village of Coushatta Indians at the mouth of the Little Tennessee River near Bussel Island. The Spaniards called this tribe 'Coste'. | Coushatta | - |
| Summer 1540 | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - Hernando de Soto encountered the Tula Indians, who had a loose connection to the Caddo Indians, in the area of today's Caddo Gap in western Arkansas. The Tula may also have been the forerunners of the Wichita Indians. In any case, the Tula fought a battle with De Soto's soldiers, who then retreated east to the Mississippi. | Tula (Caddo) Wichita | - |
| About 545 AD | Hernando de Soto Expedition 1539-1543 - Presumably after Hernando de Soto's expedition in 1539 through the present-day US states of Florida, Georgia, Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, the old Mississippi cultures collapsed. The epidemics introduced by the Spaniards quickly raged among the Indians. The old power and tribal structures of the former tribes of the Mississippi culture in the south-east of what is now the USA formed the 'Confederacy' of the Creek. The Creek divided into the Lower Creek in southwestern Georgia and the Upper Creek in eastern Alabama. The English, who began to expand into Creek territory in 1700, considered the Creek to be a confederation of tribes. But this was not true. The Creek never had a central leadership and did not see themselves as a confederation. The various tribes waged wars against each other for centuries. And to the outside world, they were anything but a united, large and strong group fighting against other tribes or against the whites. The distinction between Upper Creek and Lower Creek by the English was based on their language. The Upper Creek spoke Muskogee, the Lower Creek Hitchiti. Both languages were very different from each other. It was precisely these Creek Indians who were to invade the now largely deserted Florida from 1700 onwards under pressure from the ever advancing English, but also because of the increasing demand for land to satisfy the English demand for furs. From around 1770, all of Florida's Indian tribes were then simply called 'Seminole' by the English, as the English never had an overview of the diversity of the Indian tribes, their origins and their names. | Alabama (Upper Creek) Apalachicola (Lower Creek) Chiaha (Creek) Oconee (Lower Creek) Seminole Miccosukee (Lower Creek) Yuchi (Lower Creek) Yamasee (Creek) Koasatis (Creek) Hitchitas (Creek) | - |
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| Mississippian culture mound sites in the Mississippi region. Source: Thomet Daniel, photographed in 2011 in Aztalan State Park, Wisconsin. | |||