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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. Francisco López de Gómara [ 1 ] indicates that the massacre of Cholula began after Cortés captured and killed Cholulteca leaders, unleashing with this act the slaughter of ...
Cortes wanted to entirely understand the cause of the Indians' rebellion. He interrogated them [the Spaniards] altogether. Some said it was caused by the message sent by Narváez, others because the people wanted to toss the Spaniards out of the Aztec city [Tenochtitlan], which had been planned as soon as the ships had arrived, because while ...
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; Sebastian Cabot; Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo; Alonso de Cáceres; Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano; Juan de la Cámara; Pedro de Candia
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.
Gomez Perez Dasmariñas, Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines: Killed in a mutiny by Chinese rowers during a Spanish military expedition to the Moluccas. 1596 Magalat, Cagayano rebel 1608 Luis Enriquez, Spanish encomendero of Pilitan, Cagayan Valley [2] Killed during a revolt by Irraya natives 1625
On the other hand, the presence of one or more mitigating circumstances when a crime is committed, can serve to reduce the penalty imposed. An example is voluntary surrender. Lastly, the presence of aggravating circumstances will increase the penalty imposed under the crime, upon conviction. Some examples are contempt or insult to public authority.
She was estimated to have been 30 to 40 years old when she died and was buried underneath large rocks sometime between 1450 or 1500 A.D. — just before the Spanish conquest of modern-day Mexico.
Spanish expansion across the Pacific came finally with the expedition of Miguel López de Legazpi and the discovery of the tornaviaje (return route from the Philippines to Mexico) by his navigator Andrés de Urdaneta, which allowed to link the newly conquered Philippines to New Spain.