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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
The fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was an important event in the Spanish conquest of the empire.It occurred in 1521 following extensive negotiations between local factions and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
To do this, his men established a settlement called La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, or "True Cross", since they arrived on Maundy Thursday and landed on Good Friday. The legally constituted " town council of Villa Rica" then promptly offered him the position of adelantado , or Chief Justice and Captain-General .
The original joke? Not that funny. We've got some way better reasons for chickens (and lots of other things) crossing the road. The post 30 of the Funniest “Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road ...
One that was a little harder than Cortes expected – 92.5 miph – but a couple inches lower than Cortes preferred. And sailed a lot farther than he’d imagined.
The massacre of Cholula was an attack carried out by the military forces of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés on his way to the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in 1519. ...
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