{"slug": "pedro-de-alvarado", "label": "Pedro de Alvarado", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Alvarado", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210900", "qid": "Q210900", "description": "Spanish conquistador, explorer and condottiero", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1495, 1541], "span_label": ["1495 CE", "1541 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "spanish-empire", "label": "Spanish Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guatemala", "label": "Guatemala", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maya-civilization", "label": "Maya civilization", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tenochtitlan", "label": "Tenochtitlan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moctezuma-ii", "label": "Moctezuma II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "el-salvador", "label": "El Salvador", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1495, "year_label": "1495 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365256979#Births", "title": "1495", "revid": 1365256979, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1520, "year_label": "1520 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – The Massacre in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan takes place in Mexico after the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II is allowed by the Deputy Governor of New Spain, Pedro de Alvarado, to host Aztec nobles at the Great Temple at Tenochtitlan to celebrate the Feat of Toxcatl in honor of the god Tezcatlipoca. Alvarado uses the opportunity to kill more than 600 Aztec warriors and commanders, but spares Moctezuma.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367307705#April–June", "title": "1520", "revid": 1367307705, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1524, "year_label": "1524 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, taking the capital, Quiché.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368819061#January–March", "title": "1524", "revid": 1368819061, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1524, "year_label": "1524 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – Battle of Acajutla: Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado defeats a battalion of Pipiles, in the neighborhoods of present day Acajutla, El Salvador.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368819061#April–June", "title": "1524", "revid": 1368819061, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1525, "year_label": "1525 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomans Maya State, falls to the Spanish conquistadores of Pedro de Alvarado (in modern-day Guatemala) after a three-month siege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368819017#Date_unknown", "title": "1525", "revid": 1368819017, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1536, "year_label": "1536 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 27", "text": "June 27 – San Pedro Sula is founded by Pedro de Alvarado in Honduras.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366494676#April–June", "title": "1536", "revid": 1366494676, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1541, "year_label": "1541 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (b. 1495)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361813253#Deaths", "title": "1541", "revid": 1361813253, "section": "Deaths"}}]}