Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose was the first legally sanctioned free Black community in the United States. It became the northernmost point of Defense for the San Agustín, the Spanish capitol of Florida.

King Charles II decrees that enslaved people under British control who seek sanctuary in Spanish territories will be given liberty, as long as they convert to Catholicism and swear allegiance to Spain. This was a measure that both harmed the British economy and gained more converts for the Catholic Church. 

Fifty more enslaved African people were purchased to take the place of paid and enslaved Indigenous workers at the Castillo de San Marcos.

An epidemic kills many of the paid Indigenous workers constructing the Castillo de San Marcos. Thirty enslaved African people were purchased from Havana, Cuba.

Queen Regent Mariana of Spain orders Nueva España (or "New Spain," now Mexico) to pay for a stone fort to be built in San Augustin. 

Pedro Menendez founds San Augustin as the capital of La Florida. His party is said to have included free and enslaved Africans.

Juan Ponce de Leon lands in La Florida and claims the land for Spain. Within his party is Juan Garrido, who is thought to be the first free Black person in the Americas.

Christopher Columbus sets sail for "the New World," beginning the imperial era of Spain. This conquest was ordered by Isabella I, Queen of Castile. Columbus came ashore in the Bahamas with three ships, the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. Columbus claimed the lands for Spain and made the first European "discovery" of the Americas.