Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_León" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a> comes ashore on what is now the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Florida">Florida</a>, landing somewhere between the modern city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine</a> and the mouth of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Johns_River" id="mwFQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St. Johns River">St. Johns River</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_2#cite_note-1" id="mwFg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFw">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFTucker2013">Tucker, Spencer C. (2013). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TO2mx314ST0C" id="mwBtQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBtU">Almanac of American Military History. Vol. 1: 1000-1830</i></a>. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. p.<span id="mwBtY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>37. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBtc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBtg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781598845303" id="mwBtk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781598845303"><bdi id="mwBto">9781598845303</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBts" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Almanac+of+American+Military+History.+Vol.+1%3A+1000-1830&amp;rft.place=Santa+Barbara%2C+Calif.&amp;rft.pages=37&amp;rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=9781598845303&amp;rft.aulast=Tucker&amp;rft.aufirst=Spencer+C.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTO2mx314ST0C&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+2"></span></span>