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[51]: 468 Following the discovery and authentication of Cortés's remains, there was a discovery of what were described as the bones of Cuauhtémoc, resulting in a "battle of the bones". [51]: 468 On December 16, 1560, the lawsuits related to vassals of the Cortes estate were resolved by a royal order issued by Philip II. [53]
The Age of Discovery (c. 1418 – c. 1620), [1] also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapped with the Age of Sail. It was a period from approximately the late 15th century to the 17th century, during which seafarers from a number of European countries explored, colonized, and conquered regions ...
The Age of Discovery arguably began in the early 15th century with the rounding of the feared Cape Bojador and Portuguese exploration of the west coast of Africa, while in the last decade of the century the Spanish sent expeditions far across the Atlantic, where the Americas would eventually be reached, and the Portuguese found a sea route to ...
1493–1515 – Spanish exploration, conquest, enslavement, and settlement in the Caribbean and the Spanish Main; 1502 – Moctezuma II elected huey tlatoani, emperor [literally: "Great Speaker"] of the Aztec Triple Alliance; 1503–09 – Moctezuma's coronation conquests; 1504 – Hernan Cortés arrives in the Caribbean
• expedition Pedro de Ursúa not shown A map of exploration routes of Alonso de Ojeda (1499–1502 & 1509–10) Francisco Pizarro (1509–10) 4th voyage of Christopher Columbus, who touched upon later named after him Colombian, now Panamanian lands where he encountered the Kuna people (1502–04) Map of exploration routes of Vasco Núñez de ...
17th c. Dutch map of the Americas Universities founded in Spanish America by the Spanish Empire. The empire in the Indies was a newly established dependency of the kingdom of Castile alone, so crown power was not impeded by any existing cortes (i.e. parliament), administrative or ecclesiastical institution, or seigneurial group. [65]
Decades of the New World (Latin: De orbe novo decades; Spanish: Décadas del nuevo mundo), by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, is a collection of eight narrative tracts recounting early Spanish exploration, conquest and colonization of the New World, exploration of the Pacific, and related miscellany. The first four of these tracts were first published ...
Route of the 1539 voyage by Francisco de Ulloa from (Acapulco) along the west coast of Mexico. Francisco de Ulloa (pronounced [fɾanˈθisko ðe wˈʎoa]) (died 1540) was a Spanish explorer who explored the west coast of present-day Mexico and the Baja California Peninsula under the commission of Hernán Cortés.