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| Book cover | Autor | Title | Description |
| Bild | Autor | Leer | Beschreibung |
| Date | Event | Tribe | Chief |
1804  | Osceola was born in Georgia. His mother, from the Red Stick (Upper Creek) tribe, married a white trader named William Powell.   | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| Summer 1814 | After the defeat at Horseshoe Bend, many Red Sticks (Upper Creek) fled to Florida in the Suwanee River area. There the Red Sticks met the Mikasuki. Among them was ten-year-old Osceola. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| October 1834 | The new Indian agent of Florida, Wiley Thompson, called a meeting in Fort King to speed up the move of the Seminole to their new reservation in Oklahoma, which the whites felt was too slow. But the Seminole were in no hurry. The Seminole argued that the 1823 Treaty of Moultrie Creek guaranteed them the reservation in central Florida for 20 years. After the meeting, Thompson called for more troops. Only one company of soldiers was stationed at Fort King. He had noticed that the Indians were using government money to buy unusually large quantities of guns, gunpowder and lead. It was at this time that the whites first became aware of Osceola. In addition to Micanopy, Osceola also took part in the talks. Both chiefs resisted the relocation of the Seminole to the Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.  | Upper Creek (Creek) Alachua (Lower Creek) | Osceola Micanopy |
| October 1834 | The Florida Indian Agent, Wiley Thompson, gathered the Seminole again for a meeting at Fort King. This time he read out a letter from President Andrew Jackson in which he threatened the Indians with violence if they did not voluntarily relocate to the new reservation. The Seminole asked for a month to think it over. After this month, the Seminole informed Thompson and General Clinch that they would not relocate to the new reservation. This led to a heated exchange of words between Thompson and the Indians. Surprisingly, at the end of the conversation, 8 chiefs agreed to move to the new reservation. But 5 of the most important chiefs, including Micanopy, refused to move. Thompson had the chiefs removed from the room. | Upper Creek (Creek) Alachua (Lower Creek) | Osceola Micanopy |
| June 1835 | During a visit to Fort King, Chief Osceola became so abusive that he was chained and imprisoned by Indian agent Wiley Thompson. When Osceola agreed to honor the Treaty of Payne's Landing the next morning, Thompson released Osceola. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
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| Osceola, painted by George Catlin a few days before his death at Fort Moultrie near Charleston, South Carolina. Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osceola. | |||
| End of November 1835 | One of the chiefs who agreed to the forced relocation to Oklahoma was Charley Emathla, a respected Seminole chief. In late November, he sold his cattle at Fort King and marched to Fort Brooke. On the way to Fort Brooke, Emathla was captured and killed by Osceola. In anticipation of war, panic broke out in Florida. Settlers abandoned their homes and sought refuge in safer places. The few forts that had never been filled with soldiers began to fill with fleeing settler families. Small groups of Indians raided individual settlements and homesteads. | Upper Creek (Creek) Seminole | Osceola Charley Emathla |
| 18 December 1835 | Osceola, with about 80 warriors, attacked a wagon train guarded by mounted Florida militia. 8 whites were killed and 6 wounded. The wagon train was on its way from Fort Crum to Fort Micanopy. The battle took place at Bolen Bluff, 4 miles northwest of Micanopy. The battle ended when soldiers from Fort Defiance arrived. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
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| Bolen Bluff Trail 2013, 4 miles northwest of Micanopy. The Battle of Black Point took place here in 1835. Source: Thomet Daniel 2013. | |||
| 28 December 1835 | That day, Osceola's warriors were lying in wait outside Fort King. That afternoon, Agent Wiley Thompson and young Lieutenant Constantine Smith were taking a walk outside the gates of Fort King when Osceola's warriors shot and killed them. Thompson was hit by 14 shots. The Seminole retreated after looting a nearby warehouse and killing most of the soldiers inside. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 31 December 1835 | General Clinch left Fort Drane with 750 soldiers. Two-thirds of the soldiers were volunteers whose service ended in two days. Clinch planned to attack Seminole villages along the Withlacoochee River at Lake Tsala Apopka. Clinch was attacked at the Withlacoochee River, lost 5 soldiers and had 59 wounded. Clinch had to march back to Fort Drane. It should also be mentioned that Clinch's retreat was portrayed in the newspapers as a victory achieved through Clinch's brilliant retreat strategy and the soldiers' self-sacrificing fighting style. As a result, Clinch was nicknamed 'Old Withlacoochee' and became Governor of Georgia through the media's portrayal. | Miccosukee (Lower Creek) Upper Creek (Creek) | Halpatter Tustenugge (Alligator) Osceola |
| 1835 | The Seminole lived in the area around Tsala Apopka Lake, north-east of the present-day city of Inverness in mid-west Florida. Osceola also lived in one of these villages. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 28 February 1836 Nicht erkannter Quellenhinweis | 2nd Battle of Withlacoochee 1836 - At the same spot on the Withlacoochee River where Clinch was attacked, the Seminole under Osceola also attacked Gaines. While crossing the river, Lieutenant James Izard was fatally shot. Gaines was forced to entrench himself and sent a dispatch rider to General Clinch at Fort Brooke. After an eight-day siege by the Seminole and already short of rations from the start, Gaines' soldiers began slaughtering and eating their own horses. Clinch arrived at Gaines on March 6 with 500 soldiers. The Seminole left. On March 11, Gaines and Clinch reached Fort Drane with their troops. Gaines was hailed as a hero in the Tallahassee and Mobile media. There was even speculation that the war in Florida would soon be over. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
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| Edmund P. Gaines. Source: http://seminolewar.livejournal.com/153031.html | |||
| 8 June 1836 | Southeast of Fort Defiance, 150 to 200 Seminole warriors were seen at Tuscawilla Hammock. The next morning, these warriors were probably in pursuit of the express rider traveling from Fort Drane to Fort Defiance. The express rider arrived safely at Fort Defiance at 07:00. Major Heilemann had the guards in front of the fort and on the watchtowers doubled. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 9 June 1836 | At 11:00 a.m., the guards saw the Seminole warriors for the first time about 0.75 miles from the fort. Osceola then attacked Fort Defiance with 250 warriors. The commander of the fort, Major Heileman, opened his gates and attacked Osceola's warriors in front of the fort. After 80 minutes of fighting in the blazing sun, he succeeded in driving off the Seminole. Captain Lee and 3 soldiers were wounded. | Seminole | Osceola |
| June 1836 | Since March, the number of Dragoons at Fort Defiance has dropped from 90 to 25, and most of the men have fallen ill. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 19 July 1836 | Fort Drane had to be abandoned due to the many cases of illness. 5 out of 7 officers and 140 soldiers had fallen ill. While transporting goods from Fort Drane to Fort Defiance, the 80 soldiers in the column were attacked by 200 Seminole. Several soldiers were killed. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 7 August 1836 | The last soldiers left Fort Drane. The Seminole under Chief Osceola occupied the fort. Osceola probably contracted malaria here, from which he later died. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| Middle of August 1836 | Major Benjamin K. Pierce was tasked with the evacuation of Fort Defiance. Pierce attacked Osceola in the vicinity of Fort Defiance. However, the Seminole were able to flee into the swamps. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 29 September 1836 | Call's Kampagne in Florida 1836 - By the end of the summer of 1836, Call was ready for the campaign he had planned. The biggest problem was obtaining and transporting food to the troops in Florida. On September 29, Call and his troops were east of the Suwammee River, in Alachua Prairie territory. Here Call divided his troops into two units: One part, under General Read Leigh, was to march south to the Suwannee River and establish a supply depot there, while the other part, under his command, was to march south to the abandoned Fort Drane. The two units were to meet at the Withlacoochee River at the bay of Tsala Apopka Lake. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 13 October 1836 | Call's Kampagne in Florida 1836 - Call reached the Withlacoochee River. But the river was so swollen at the end of the rainy season that Call could not cross it. The Seminole were waiting on the other side of the river. Call decided to march west and meet up with Read somewhere on the west coast. However, as Read's steamer 'Izard' ran aground on a sandbank on the way there, broke up and sank, Read had to set up his depot with the remaining supplies much closer to the coast than planned. Call was slowly running out of food. Unable to find Read, he decided to march to Fort Drane, and several unfortunate circumstances prevented further food supplies from reaching Call. A depot at St. Marks sank under its own weight, while another ship failed to make progress due to unfavorable winds and sprung another leak and nearly sank. | Seminole | Osceola |
| Middle of November 1836 | Call's Kampagne in Florida 1836 - Call wanted to try again. This time he managed to cross the Withlacoochee River, but found only deserted villages near Cove. He continued his march south on both sides of the Withlacoochee River. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 21 November 1836 | Call's Kampagne in Florida 1836 - Call and his troops invaded the Wahoo Swamps. This was where the Seminole had taken refuge after Call had driven them out of their village on the Withlacoochee River. Call's troops drove the Seminole in their village to the other side of a small river. While crossing the river, Major David Moniac was shot and killed. Call then decided to leave the Seminole alone and return to a supply depot near Velosia. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 10 January 1837 | General Jesup learned from 10 captured black Seminole warriors that Osceola was ill. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 2 June 1837 | Treaty of Fort Dade 1837That night, Osceola and Sam Jones, with about 200 warriors, managed to lead all 700 Seminole waiting to be shipped out of Fort Brooke unnoticed. Exactly how this worked is not entirely clear. Reports from Creek spies had warned them that something like this could happen. Despite the guards posted, the feat succeeded. For Major General Jesup, this escape had consequences. From his point of view, the Indians had broken their word. Jesup could no longer trust the word of an Indian. Certain rules based on trust no longer applied to him. For example, that it was safe to negotiate under a white flag. In the years that followed, Jesup would fall back on such methods again and again. | Alachua (Lower Creek) Upper Creek (Creek) Seminole Miccosukee (Lower Creek) Alachua (Lower Creek) | Jumper Osceola Abraham Sam Jones Micanopy |
| 21 October 1837 | Using the same method, General Hernandez succeeded in capturing Osceola, Coa Hadjo, 71 warriors, 6 women, and 4 Black warriors at an agreed upon location south of St. Augustine at Fort Peyton on Moultrie Creek. | Upper Creek (Creek) Seminole | Osceola Coa Hadjo |
| 29 November 1837 | After their capture, Osceola and Coacoochee were imprisoned at Fort Marion along with King Philip (Emathla), John Cavallo and 21 other Seminole. Fort Marion was considered the most secure prison in all of Florida. Nevertheless, Coacoochee, John Cavallo and 16 men managed to break out at night and even scaled the 8 meter high outer wall. Osceola, who was obviously already too ill, and King Philip, who refused to break out for reasons of age, were unable or unwilling to escape. For weeks, the Indians ate as little as possible to keep the cells as narrow as possible. This was the only way the Indians could escape through the approx. 1 m wide and approx. 20 cm high opening at the top of the cell wall. | Upper Creek (Creek) Miccosukee (Lower Creek) Miccosukee (Lower Creek) Seminole | Osceola King Philip Coacoochee (Wild Cat) John Cavallo |
| December 1837 | Osceola and 202 other captured Seminole were taken from Fort St. Augustine to Fort Moultrie in South Carolina by Captain Pitcairn Morrison of the 4th U.S. Infantry. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |
| 30 January 1838 | Osceola died in Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, at 6:20 p.m. local time. Officially, he died of a type of sore throat or tonsillitis as a result of a malaria infection. | Upper Creek (Creek) | Osceola |