* 1521 – Tenochtitlan ( present day Mexico City ) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.

* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

* Hernán Cortés ( or Hernando Cortés ) ( 1485 – 1547 ), Spanish conquistador

The first European contact with chocolate came when Montezuma ( then tlatoani of Tenochtitlan ) introduced Hernán Cortés, a Spanish conquistador, to xocolatl in the 16th century.

Hernán Cortés ordered Moctezuma to ask his people to stop fighting.

He surrendered to Hernán Cortés along with the surviving pipiltin ( nobles ), and offered him his knife and asked to be killed.

* 1547 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror ( b. 1485 )

Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés slew Emperor Cuauhtémoc and installed puppet rulers who became vassals for Spain.

* 1519: Hernán Cortés begins conquest of Mexico for Spain.

Hernán Cortés, however, in 1524, got word of Olid's insurrection and sent his cousin, Francisco de las Casas, along with several ships to Honduras to remove Olid and claim the area for Cortés.

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* 1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.

Hernán Cortés and La Malinche meet Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, November 8, 1519.

La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th century Aztec codices | codex History of Tlaxcala.

La Malinche (; c. 1496 or c. 1505 – c. 1529 ), known also as Malinalli, Malintzin or Doña Marina, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor, lover, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés.

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* Moctezuma II ( 1466 – 1520 ), ninth Aztec emperor, captured by Hernán Cortés and killed by his own people in a riot.

The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

The first hand account of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain paints a portrait of a noble leader who struggles to maintain order in his kingdom after he is taken prisoner by Hernán Cortés.

Anthony Pagden and Eulalia Guzmán ( Relaciones de Hernán Cortés 1958: 279 ) have pointed the Biblical messages that Cortés seems to ascribe to Moctezuma's retelling of the legend of Quetzalcoatl as a vengeful Messiah who would return to rule over the Mexica.

Another is the case of Hernán Cortés and his mistress La Malinche, who gave birth to another of the first multi-racial people in the Americas.

In 1519, Hernán Cortés led an expedition to Mexico that would eventually result in the overthrow of the Aztec Empire.

Four men were arrested in connection with the bombing and a trial was held in Venezuela: Freddy Lugo and Hernán Ricardo Lozano were sentenced to 20-year prison terms ; Orlando Bosch was acquitted because of technical defects in the prosecution evidence, and lived in Miami, Florida until he died on the 27th of April, 2011 ; and Luis Posada Carriles was held for eight years while awaiting a final sentence, but eventually fled.

In 1521 Hernán Cortés, along with a large number of Nahuatl speaking indigenous allies, conquered Tenochtitlan and defeated the Aztec Triple Alliance under the leadership of Hueyi Tlatoani Moctezuma II.

This settlement was founded by Gonzalo de Sandoval under orders from Hernán Cortés in order to control the newly conquered region.

The two most famous conquistadors were Hernán Cortés who conquered the Aztec Empire and Francisco Pizarro who led the conquest of the Incan Empire.

Spanish conquistadores led by Hernán Cortez conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan ( on the site of present day Mexico City ) in 1521, and Franciscan missionaries followed shortly thereafter.

In 1526, Hernán Cortés writes in one of his letters of the northern Chichimec tribes who were not as civilized as the Aztecs he had conquered, but commented that they might be enslaved and used to work in the mines.

Originally known as " Tintoque ," which means " Valley of the Warriors ," the town was renamed Valle de Banderas, or " Valley of the Flags " by Hernán Cortés ' nephew, Per Nilsson, when he conquered the Pacific coast in 1525.

Other blacks served with Hernán Cortés when he conquered Mexico and with Francisco Pizarro when he invaded the Inca empire in present-day Peru.

Although he had found no El Dorado to equal those of Hernán Cortés in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro in Peru, he was loved by his people, who lamented his passing.

* March 4 – Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico

* possible – La Malinche, interpreter and translator for Hernán Cortés during the Conquest of Mexico

A burial ground in Campeche, Mexico, suggests slaves had been brought there not long after Hernán Cortés completed the subjugation of Aztec and Mayan Mexico.

Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City ; from indigenous bark paper codices ; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; And especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous Florentine Codex compiled by the Franciscan monk Bernardino de Sahagún with the help of indigenous Aztec informants.

Following Hernán Cortés's conquest of Mexico, the lure of an earthly paradise as well as the search for the fabled Strait of Anián, helped motivate him to send several expeditions to the west coast of New Spain in the 1530s and early 1540s.

* 1532: Hernán Cortés sends three ships north along the coast of Mexico in search of the Island of California.

A farmer, landowner and weaver of mats, he witnessed the Spanish conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés in 1521, when he was 47 years old.

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.

* 1519-Two Franciscans accompany Hernán Cortés in his expedition to Mexico

Arquebuses were carried by some of the soldiers of Hernán Cortés in his conquest of Mexico in the 1520s, and arquebuses played an important role in the victories of Cristóvão da Gama's small and outnumbered army in his 1541 – 42 campaign in Ethiopia.

In 1528, Hernán Cortés established settlements in North America and López de Legazpi traveled to Mexico ( New Spain ) to start a new life.

Cabrillo shipped for Havana as a young man and joined forces with Hernán Cortés in Mexico ( then called New Spain.

He initially backed Hernán Cortés's famous expedition to Mexico, but pulled back his support before the expedition was scheduled to launch because of his personal enmity for Cortés.

This was the starting point of the expeditions led by Juan de Grijalba and Hernán Cortés to the coasts of Mexico in 1518, and in 1538 by Hernando de Soto's expedition to Florida.

Cochineal appears to have been brought to Europe during the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniard Hernán Cortés, and the name ' carmine ' is derived from the French carmin.

It was known in centuries past as the site where Hernán Cortés received a vision supposedly ordering him to Christianize Mexico.