Founding of St. Augustine
The Spanish found the oldest city in the United States
On 8 September 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed in Florida and founded San Agustín, and soon massacred the French Huguenots of nearby Fort Caroline. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the United States.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 22 years earlier
- 1565 Great Siege of Malta — same year
- 1568–1648 Dutch Revolt — 3 years later
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — 6 years later
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 17 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 18 years earlier
- 1556 Russia annexes Astrakhan — 9 years earlier
- 1558–1583 Livonian War — 7 years earlier
- 1569 Union of Lublin — 4 years later
- 1572 Battle of Molodi — 7 years later
Asia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 9 years earlier
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 9 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 35)
- Elizabeth I (aged 32)
- Akbar the Great (aged 23)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 22)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 18)
- William Shakespeare (aged 1)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 1)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 81)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 71)
- Selim II (aged 41)