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Born in Medellin, Extremadura, Spain
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Birth to Death of Hernando Cortes
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Attends university of Salamanca
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He failed college and left to returen to Medellin
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Cortes heard stories about the expedition to the West Indies
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Cortes heard stories about the expedition to the West Indies
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Hernan Cortes goes to the expedition of Cuba
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The town of Bayamo was established in Cuba
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He becomes a rancher in Cuba
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Towns in Cuba were founded
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Captains an expedition to an established colony to Mexico
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February 19, cortes sets sail to Mexico
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March, cortes lands in Mexico and suppresses a town called Tabasco and he meets his translator Malinche
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Sails from the Yucatan peninsula and marched to Tenochtitlan
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Hernan Cortes is attacked by Aztec warriors on his way to Tenochtitlan
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Cortes and his soliders are forced out of Tenochtitlan
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He returns to Tenichtitlan with reinforcements
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A plague strikes and many Aztecs are killed
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Returns to Spain and he was given the title "Marques Del Valle De Oaxaca"
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He returns to the new world and settles in Cuernavaca, Mexico
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Makes a final expedition and discoveres Baja, California
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Explored California for a year and went back to Mexico
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Returns to Spain for the last time
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Permission to fight against the Moors and Pirates of Algiers
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He dies near Seville