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Pedro de Alvarado

Spanish conquistador, explorer and condottiero

7 dated entries naming Pedro de Alvarado, drawn from 6 separate years between 1495 CE and 1541 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1495Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)source

16th century

  • 1520May 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.source
  • 1524June 8 – Battle of Acajutla: Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado defeats a battalion of Pipiles, in the neighborhoods of present day Acajutla, El Salvador.source
  • 1524March 7 – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, taking the capital, Quiché.source
  • 1525Mixco 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.source
  • 1536June 27 – San Pedro Sula is founded by Pedro de Alvarado in Honduras.source
  • 1541July 4 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (b. 1495)source

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