December 2
December 2, 1547: On this day, Hernán Cortés died. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca, was in charge of an expedition that, in the early […]
August 13
August 13, 1521: On this day in 1521 the city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, fell to Hernan Cortez and his Spanish conquistadores. This came at the end of a short […]
