During Cortes’s absence, Alvarado’s execution of many Aztec chiefs enraged the people. After defeating Velázquez’s forces, Cortés returned to Tenochtitlan on June 24, 1520, to find the ...

When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortes arrived in the city of Tenochtitlan, in what is now Mexico City, the Mexican empire was ruled by the Tlatoani Moctezuma II or Moctezuma Xocoyotzin.He ...

And it was there they built the floating city - Tenochtitlan. RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: Over the next 175 years, ... when Hernan Cortes arrives in what Spain calls the new world.

TENOCHTITLAN continues to baffle scientists, and more than 500 years on from the fall of the Aztec capital, ... Hernan Cortes and his Spanish conquistadors seized control in 1521.

Archaeologists have discovered two iron ship anchors off Mexico's Gulf Coast that could have belonged to Spaniard Hernan Cortes' fleet, which landed in 1519 before overthrowing the Aztec empire ...

The date was Nov. 8, 1519. Bernal's leader, Hernán Cortés, walked them down a causeway leading into the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, and was greeted by this land's most powerful man: Emperor ...

On June 30, 1520, the Aztecs drove Hernán Cortés and his invading army out of their capital Tenochtitlan—an event that came to be known as "La Noche Triste" or "Sad Night." ...

And it was there they built the floating city - Tenochtitlan. RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: Over the next 175 years, ... when Hernan Cortes arrives in what Spain calls the new world.