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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral, explorer and conquistador from Avilés, Asturias. He is notable for planning the first Spanish treasure fleet and founding St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. This was the first successful European settlement in Spanish Florida and the most significant city ...
History of Florida. St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the continental United States, was founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The Spanish Crown issued an asiento to Menéndez, signed by King Philip II on March 20, 1565, granting him various titles, including that ...
Portrait of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, after a painting by Titian. On Tuesday, September 4, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, adelantado of La Florida, set sail from the harbor of what was to become the presidio of St. Augustine, and coasting north, came upon four vessels lying at anchor off the mouth of a river. [33]
acting. Pedro Menéndez Márquez and Rodrigo del Junco (the latter held the governorship between 1590 and 1592) 1577 – 1594. Beginning of the Spanish missions to the Timucua. Vicente González (1577–1578) and Tomás Bernaldo de Quirós (1578–1579) served as interim governors during Márquez' absence. [3] Juan de Posada governed Florida ...
Santa Elena (Spanish Florida) Coordinates: 32.3063°N 80.6755°W. Santa Elena, a Spanish settlement on what is now Parris Island, South Carolina, was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587. It was established under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the first governor of Spanish Florida. [1][2] There had been a number of earlier attempts to ...
The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.
Light. The Raid on St. Augustine was a military event during the Anglo-Spanish War in which the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine in Florida (Spanish: San Agustín)) was captured in a small fight and burnt by an English expedition fleet led by Sir Francis Drake. [1] This was part of Sir Francis Drake's Great Expedition and was his last ...
The Saturiwa were a Timucua chiefdom centered on the mouth of the St. Johns River in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. They were the largest and best attested chiefdom of the Timucua subgroup known as the Mocama, who spoke the Mocama dialect of Timucuan and lived in the coastal areas of present-day northern Florida and southeastern Georgia.