* 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.

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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.

The Aztecs gave the area its current name ; however their rule was hated by the native Tepanecas, who welcomed Hernán Cortés and the Spanish, allowing them to use this southern port on Lake Texcoco as a headquarters during the conquest of Tenochtitlan.

Other writings that refer to the capital include Hernán Cortés ’ fourth letter in 1524, “ La información de Don Vasco de Quiroga, sobre el asiento de su iglesia Catedral ,” from 1538, “ Tratado curioso y doctor de las cosas de la Nueva España ” by Antonio de la Ciudad Real in 1590, “ Relaciones goegráficas ; las Crónica de la orden de Nuestro Seráfico Padre San Francisco, provincia de San Pedro y San Pablo de Mechoacan in la Nueva España ” by Alonso de la Rea in the 17th century and the “ Crónica de la provincia de los santos apóstoles San Pedro y San Pablo de Michoacán ” by Pablo Beaumont.

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

Hernán Cortés founded the town of La Natividad in 1524, roughly where Puerto Cortés is today, and populated it with about 20 Spaniards who had been previously been living in Nito and Naco.

Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico, promoted the establishment of vines and made it in 1524 a requirement for Spanish settlers that wanted to acquire land in the Mexican Plateau to establish vineyards in their lands.

The explorer Hernán Cortés and his men were familiar with the book ; Cortés quoted it in 1524.

The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.

The history of the modern town begins in 1524, shortly after the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés.

Elections were re-scheduled for 1979, and when they took place Hernán Siles won again but this time Paz got second place.

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.

He also sent Payo Gómez de Sotomayor and Hernán Sánchez de Palazuelos, and later Ruy González de Clavijo, as ambassadors to Timur.

Hernán Cortés sent Francisco de Orozco to Oaxaca because Moctezuma II said that the Aztec ’ s gold came from there.

In the middle of November 1523, the Estremaduran captain Don Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras had been sent on an important mission by Hernán Cortés to discover and conquer the lands south of Mexico.

On the arrival of the Spaniards, the young chieftain sent an embassy to Hernán Cortés while he was at Tlaxcala, offering him his services and asking his aid in return.

In 1533, Fortún Ximénez, a mutineer on an exploring expedition sent by Hernán Cortés, discovered the southern portion of Baja California, around La Paz.

Ximénez was the pilot of a ship, the “ Concepción ,” sent by Hernán Cortés and captained by Diego de Becerra.

After conquering the Aztec Empire, Hernán Cortés sent expeditions to explore what he believed to be the Island of California.

In 1520, while Hernán Cortés was still trying to conquer Tenochtitlan, the Spanish sent an expedition south of the valley into this area.

The news that this " island " of Yucatán had gold, doubted by Bernal but enthusiastically maintained by Julianillo, the Maya prisoner taken at the battle of Catoche, fed the subsequent series of events that was to end with the Conquest of Mexico by the third flotilla sent, that of Hernán Cortés.

European contacts with the Pericú began in the 1530s, first when Fortún Ximénez and mutineers from an expedition sent out by Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of central Mexico, reached La Paz, followed shortly afterwards by an expedition under Cortés himself ( Mathes 1973 ).

It is in the Museo de América in Madrid, Spain, where it may have been sent back to the Royal Court by Hernán Cortés.

Originally a bodyguard of King Charles, he was sent to Mexico to counterbalance the influence of Hernán Cortés, as the King of Spain worried he was becoming too powerful.

It is speculated that it was sent by Hernán Cortés as a tribute to King Charles I of Spain in 1519.

Unfortunately, they sat up near the ocean, and were soon spotted by Pedro de Alvarado, who Hernán Cortés had sent to destroy the cultures and civilizations further south.