Alonso Álvarez de Pineda attempts to sail…

1519 CE

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda attempts to sail east at the western tip of Southern Florida, but the winds are uncooperative.

Instead, Alvarez de Pineda sail west from the Florida Keys to hug the Gulf Coast.

On June 2, 1519, Alvarez de Pineda enters a large bay with a sizable Native American settlement on one shore.

He sails upriver for eighteen miles and observes as many as forty villages on the banks of the large, deep river he names "Espíritu Santo".

Long assumed to have been the first European report of the mouth of the Mississippi River, the description of the land and its settlement has led many historians to believe he was describing Mobile Bay and the Alabama River.

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