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Near present-day St. Augustine, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon
comes ashore on the Florida coast, and claims the territory for the
Spanish crown.
Although other European navigators may have sighted the Florida
peninsula before, Ponce de Leon is credited with the first recorded
landing and the first detailed exploration of the Florida coast. The
Spanish explorer was searching for the “Fountain of Youth,ö a fabled
water source that was said to bring eternal youth. Ponce de Leon named
the peninsula he believed to be an island “La Floridaö because his
discovery came during the time of the Easter feast, or Pascua Florida.
In 1521, he returned to Florida in an effort to establish a Spanish
colony on the island. However, hostile Native Americans attacked his
expedition soon after landing, and the party retreated to Cuba, where
Ponce de Leon died from a mortal wound suffered during the battle.
Successful Spanish colonization of the peninsula finally began at St.
Augustine in 1565, and in 1819 the territory passed into U.S. control
under the terms of the Florida Purchase Treaty between Spain and the
United States.
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