{"slug": "st-augustine-florida", "label": "St. Augustine, Florida", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine%2C_Florida", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q487988", "qid": "Q487988", "description": "city in St. Johns County, Florida, United States", "entries": 13, "years": 11, "span": [1559, 1899], "span_label": ["1559 CE", "1899 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "spanish-empire", "label": "Spanish Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "label": "Augustine of Hippo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "habsburg-spain", "label": "Habsburg Spain", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1559, "year_label": "1559 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1,500 men, on 13 ships, arrives from Vera Cruz at Pensacola Bay, founding the oldest European settlement in the mainland U.S. (St. Augustine is founded in 1565.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366794840#July–September", "title": "1559", "revid": 1366794840, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1565, "year_label": "1565 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – St. Augustine, Florida (named after Augustine of Hippo), is established by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, becoming the oldest surviving European settlement in the modern-day United States, and a mass of Thanksgiving is said.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323811827#July–September", "title": "1565", "revid": 1323811827, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1576, "year_label": "1576 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – Alonso de Solís, who was appointed by Spain as Governor of the colony of La Florida, is killed in the colonial capital at San Augustin, the modern U.S. city of St. Augustine, Florida.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362635528#July–September", "title": "1576", "revid": 1362635528, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1672, "year_label": "1672 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – Manuel de Cendoya, Spain's Governor of Florida, breaks ground for the construction of the Castillo de San Marcos, a masonry fortress designed to protect St. Augustine. 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While everyone on board escapes in lifeboats, one of the boats capsizes, drowning the captain and 16 other crew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#April", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › April"}}]}