The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (TRIH ep 385, part 2)
1519 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, narrates Hernán Cortés's 1519 expedition from Cuba to the Mexican mainland and the early stages of contact with Maya and Mexica peoples. The hosts discuss Cortés's ambiguous motives (religious, legalistic and commercial), his tense relationship with Diego Velázquez of Cuba, and the composition of his force.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1519
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)