Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) qualifies as such.
Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) was the Spanish conquistador that landed on present-day Mexico in 1519.
He first landed on the Yucatan peninsula and proceeded to land and found the city and port of Veracruz in April 1519. He conquered Mexico for the Spanish Empire in 1521.
He started his voyage to Mexico on 1518. He landed and founded the first Spanish city in the Mexican mainland on April 22, 1519. Such city is the present-day Mexican port of Veracruz.
Columbus never set eyes on the Mexican coast. Never sailed further west than the Caribbean.
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro arrived in Mexico in 1519
Hernan Cortes landed on the eastern coast of Mexico.
Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) was the Spanish conquistador that landed on present-day Mexico in 1519.
1519 when the first Spaniards landed on Mexico's shores.
Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes
Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes.
When Hernan Cortes landed on the east coast of present-day Mexico 1519,he was looking for gold and glory.
No. Veracruz is the name of a port city founded in 1519 by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes on the eastern coast of Mexico. Nowadays, it is also the name of a federal state within Mexico - yes, Mexico is a federal republic.
Hernán Cortés ordered the boats burned in 1519, after they landed in Mexico.
He first landed on the Yucatan peninsula and proceeded to land and found the city and port of Veracruz in April 1519. He conquered Mexico for the Spanish Empire in 1521.
He landed in Veracruz in 1519. After conquering the Aztec empire on 1521, he retired to his estates at Cuernavaca, 59 Km (37 miles) south of present-day Mexico City. On 1536 he explored the eastern part of Mexico, eventually discovering the Gulf of California and the Baja California Peninsula.
The Spaniards arrive in Mexico just after the Aztecs.