Renaissance · North America · Exploration
1565
Saint Augustine Founded
September 8, 1565
Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed on the Florida coast and founded Saint Augustine, hoping to flush French Huguenots from Fort Caroline. He slaughtered the surrendered French garrison weeks later at Matanzas Inlet. Saint Augustine, oldest continuously inhabited European town in the continental United States, was born in massacre. The settlement's survival through centuries of hurricanes and attacks makes it the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
In context
Also in 1565 (5 other events on record)
- Talikota and the End of Vijayanagara · South Asia · War
- Great Siege of Malta Begins · Europe · War
- Urdaneta Finds the Return Route · Southeast Asia · Exploration
- Sigismund Augustus Supports Reformation · Europe · Religion
- Benin Bronze Plaques Continue · Africa · Culture
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.