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St. Augustine, Florida

city in St. Johns County, Florida, United States

13 dated entries naming St. Augustine, Florida, drawn from 11 separate years between 1559 CE and 1899 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1559August 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.)source
  • 1565September 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.source
  • 1576July 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.source

17th century

  • 1672October 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. Governor Cendoya follows on November 9 with the ceremonial laying for the first stone for the foundation.source
  • 1695After 23 years of construction, Spain completes Castillo de San Marcos to protect St. Augustine, Florida, from foreign threats.source

18th century

  • 1702November 10 – Queen Anne's War in North America: The Siege of St. Augustine opens as English forces besiege St. Augustine, Spanish Florida.source
  • 1702October 27 – Queen Anne's War in North America: English troops plunder St. Augustine, Spanish Florida.source
  • 1740Spain begins construction on Fort Matanzas in the Matanzas Inlet, approximately 15 mi km south of St. Augustine, Florida.source
  • 1742Spain completes the construction of Fort Matanzas in the Matanzas Inlet, approximately 15 mi km south of St. Augustine, Florida.source

19th century

  • 1824April 9 – The first permanent settlers arrive to construct the new city of Tallahassee, Florida, selected to be the capital of the Florida Territory newly acquired from the Kingdom of Spain; the area has been selected because it is roughly equidistant from the territory's main cities, Pensacola and St. Augustine.source
  • 1824March 7 – In the Florida Territory, the announcement is made from St. Augustine that the capital will be moved to Tallahassee.source
  • 1896November 30 – "St. Augustine Monster": A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida.source
  • 1899April 23 – The steamship General Whitney sinks off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida. While everyone on board escapes in lifeboats, one of the boats capsizes, drowning the captain and 16 other crew.source

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