The army, led by Alonso de Alvarado, was defeated during the Battle of Abancay on July 12, 1537.

Rumiñahui fell back to Quito, and, while in pursuit of the Inca army, Benalcázar encountered another, quite sizable, conquering party led by Guatemalan Governor Pedro de Alvarado.

In a bloody nocturnal action of 1 July 1520, known as La Noche Triste, Alvarado led the rear-guard and was badly wounded.

In June, 1536, Alvarado engaged the indigenous resistance led by Cicumba in the lower Ulua river valley, and won.

In Central America intermixing and intermarriages between European men and the indigenous women in Cuzcatlán or what is now El Salvador happened almost immediately after the arrival of the European Spanish led by Pedro de Alvarado.

Further land reform occurred after the 1968 coup by left-wing colonel Juan Velasco Alvarado, and again as part of a counterterrorism effort against the Shining Path during the Internal conflict in Peru roughly 1988 – 1995, led by Hernando de Soto and the Institute for Liberty and Democracy during the early years of the government of Alberto Fujimori, before the latter's auto-coup.

They put up resistance to Spanish rule until they were subdued by the Spanish and their central Mexican allies led by Pedro de Alvarado.

Pedro de Alvarado, a lieutenant of Hernán Cortés, led the first Spanish invasion in June 1524.

It featured a red star based on the California Lone Star Flag that was flown during California's 1836 revolt led by Juan Alvarado and Isaac Graham.

Their last military commander, Tecún Umán, led the K ' iche ' armies against the combined forces of Pedro de Alvarado and their Kaqchikel allies, in an epic battle in the valley of Xelajú ( Quetzaltenango ).

The dance reenacts the invasion led by Alvarado and the conquest of Guatemala.

Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922 in the living room of his two-story duplex-bungalow apartment in a court at the southeast corner of Alvarado and Maryland Streets, in the Westlake area of Los Angeles, along with other Hollywood scandals, such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalistic and often fabricated newspaper reports.

Rumiñahui fell back to Quito, and, while in pursuit of the Inca army, Benalcázar encountered another, quite sizable, conquering party led by Guatemalan Governor Pedro de Alvarado.

The initial incursion into Guatemala was led by Pedro de Alvarado, who earned the military title of Adelantado in 1527 ; he answered to the Spanish crown via Hernán Cortés in Mexico.

Now a senior member of the legislature, Alvarado and Castro, with political support from Vallejo and assistance from a group of Americans led by Isaac Graham, staged a revolt and forced Gutierrez to relinquish power.

In April 1840 a report of a planned revolt against Alvarado by a group of foreigners, led by former ally Isaac Graham, caused the governor to order their arrest and deportation to Mexico City for trial.

The first Spanish attempt to control this area failed in 1524, when Pedro de Alvarado was forced to retreat by Pipil warriors.

It was Alvarado who named the district for El Salvador (" The Savior ") and was appointed its first governor, a position he held until his death in 1541.

In 1519 Alvarado accompanied Hernán Cortés in his expedition to Mexico, commanding one of the eleven vessels in the fleet and also acting as Cortés ' second in command during the expedition's first stay in the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán.

At first, Alvarado allied himself with the Cakchiquel nation in his conquest of their traditional rivals, the Quiché nation, but his cruelties alienated the Cakchiquel, and he needed several years to stamp out resistance in the region.

Ten years after being widowed, Alvarado married one of his first wife's sisters, Beatriz de la Cueva, who outlived him.

Pedro de Alvarado is identified as the torturer of Tzinacán, the narrator in Jorge Luis Borges's story " The God's Script " (" La Escritura del Dios "), first published in 1949.

Zinnemann moved to Hollywood in December, 1934 following the completion of his first directorial effort for the Mexican cultural protest film, Redes, in Alvarado, Mexico.

Hernando de Alvarado was reported as being one of the first Europeans to lay eyes on the middle Rio Grande Valley in September of 1540 as the leader of a small convoy sent out by Coronado.

In 1980, its first U. S. restaurant opened in Los Angeles, California, at 503 Alvarado Street, near Sixth Street.

Unable to defeat this resistance, and as Alvarado was nursing a painful leg wound from a Pipil arrow in the first battle, the Spanish forces returned after a few months to the Mayan cities in the highlands.

The same day of Chachapoyas ' foundation, the members of the first cabildo were elected, turning out to be designated the councillors Gómez de Alvarado, Alonso de Chávez, Gonzalo de Trujillo, Gonzalo de Guzmán, Luis Valera ( father of the chronicler Blas Valera ), Pedro Romero, Bernardino de Anaya and Francisco de Fuentes.

The first Spaniards to arrive in Tetela were Bernardino Vázquez de Tapia and Pedro de Alvarado in 1519.

Colhoun next served aboard the frigate from 1846 to 1847, seeing action in the Mexican War, first under Commodore David Conner in the first attack on Alvarado, Mexico, and then under Commodore Matthew C. Perry at Tabasco, Mexico.

The work was premiered at the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution in conjunction with the first Filipino photography exhibit by Ricardo Alvarado.

Under the leadership of Norberto Romualdez Sr, Sanghiran's members had literary luminaries that included Iluminado Lucente, Casiano Trinchera, Eduardo Makabenta, Francisco Alvarado, Juan Ricacho, Francisco Infectana, Espiridion Brillo, and statesman and first elected Governor of the Province of Leyte, Jaime C. de Veyra.

Revolutionary Socialist Party ( in Spanish: Partido Socialista Revolucionario ), a political party in Peru formed in November 1976 by a group of radical army officers who had been active in the " first phase of the revolution " under Velasco Alvarado and who subsequently advocated a return to the objectives of the 1968 coup.

The first captain assigned to guard him was none other than Pedro de Alvarado.

The forces under Alvarado and Olid marched first towards Chapultepec to disconnect the Aztecs from their water supply.

Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez was Pedro de Alvarado's cousin ; he accompanied him on his first campaign in Guatemala and in 1525 he became the chief constable of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, the newly founded Spanish capital.

The first Marinera to be written in musical notation was La Concheperla of Abelardo Gamarra and José Alvarado, by Rosa Mercedes Ayarza de Morales in 1894.

Christianity, through the Catholic Church first came to El Salvador from in the sixteenth century with the invasion y Pedro de Alvarado.

Considered the first map of Guatemala, it is one of the few sources from the 16th century that tell of the military campaigns of Jorge de Alvarado in 1527.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

He set aside the division of territory made by Alvarado upon arrival in Honduras.

During the period leading up to the conquest of Honduras by Pedro de Alvarado, many indigenous people along the north coast of Honduras were captured and taken as slaves to work on Spain's Caribbean plantations.

It wasn't until Pedro de Alvarado defeated the indigenous resistance headed by Çocamba near Ticamaya, that the Spanish began to conquer the country in 1536.

* June 27 – San Pedro Sula is founded by Pedro de Alvarado.

San Juan Capistrano was officially designated by Governor Juan B. Alvarado as a secular Mexican town on July 29, at which time those few who still resided at the Mission were granted sections of land to use as their own.

Pedro de Alvarado was sent out by Hernán Cortés with 120 horsemen, 300 footsoldiers and several hundred Cholula and Tlaxcala auxiliaries ; he was engaged in the conquest of the highlands of Guatemala from 1523 to 1527.

Alvarado was subsequently appointed governor of Guatemala by Charles I of Spain and remained governor of Guatemala until his death.

Luisa was delivered by her father in 1519 to Hernán Cortés as a proof of respect and friendship, and in turn he gave her in guard to Pedro de Alvarado, who quickly became her lover.

* Leonor de Alvarado y Xicotenga Tecubalsi, born in the newly founded city of Santiago de los Caballeros, who married Pedro de Portocarrero, a conquistador trusted by his father-in-law, whom he accompanied during the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala.

C. S. Forester's 1937 novel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a character El Supremo who claims to be a descendant of Alvarado by a ( fictional ) marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma.

Pedro de Alvarado is a character in the opera La conquista ( 2005 ) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero, which depicts the major episodes of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521 and the subsequent destruction of the Aztec civilization.

A historic reproduction of the city's Mexican era is designated as a California State Landmark ( No. 512 ): the Alvarado Adobe, originally constructed in 1842 by one of Francisco Castro's sons, Jesús María Castro, for his mother, Gabriéla Berryessa de Castro.

Upon Gabriéla's death in 1851, it was inherited by her daughter, Martina Castro de Alvarado, wife of Juan Bautista Alvarado, who was Governor of California from 1836 to 1842.

This was created in 1982 by Sanger native artist Jose Maro Alvarado who now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

After the overthrow of the unpopular governor Nicolás Gutiérrez by Vallejo's nephew Juan Bautista Alvarado in 1836, the Monterey diputación named him Comandante General of California, further increasing the prestige of Vallejo and Sonoma.

While in Mexico, Pedro de Alvarado went to the assistance of the town of Jalisco which was under siege by hostile Indians.