Renaissance · North America · Exploration

1513

Ponce de Leon Lands in Florida

1513

Searching, perhaps, for a spring of eternal youth and certainly for gold and slaves, Juan Ponce de Leon stepped ashore on a coast of Spanish moss and flowering shrubs on Easter Sunday. He named it La Florida. The first European landfall on what would become the United States mainland had been quietly made.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1511: Antonio de Montesinos Preaches
After: 1517: Hernandez de Cordoba Sights Yucatan

Before and after in Exploration

Before: 1509: Portuguese First See Southern China
After: 1517: Hernandez de Cordoba Sights Yucatan

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Juan Ponce de León