First Contacts – St. Augustine: America’s Ancient City https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/staugustine/timeline/first-contacts/
From 1513 onward, Spanish and French explorers and would-be colonizers had attempted to establish a permanent European settlement in “the lovely, deadly land of Florida.“ It would take more than half a century, however, before this ambition would be realized by Pedro Menéndez de Aviles of Spain. Me
in September of 1565, Admiral Menéndez and Chief Seloy of the Florida Timucua Indians
