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The Spanish Colonial Settlement of St. Augustine in Florida is inaugurated on September 8, 1565, by the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés with 600 voyagers cheering; Menéndez named the colonial settlement St. Augustine in honor of the saint whose feast day fell on the day he first sighted land.
It is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the United States; established forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
