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Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko eɾˈnandeθ ðe ˈkoɾðoβa]; c. 1467 in Córdoba – 1517 in Sancti Spíritus) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.
The first European to visit Mexican territory was Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, who arrived in Yucatan from Cuba with three ships and about 100 men in early 1517.
In 1517, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba set sail from Cuba with a small fleet. The expedition sailed west from Cuba for three weeks before sighting the northeastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula. The ships could not put in close to the shore due to the coastal shallows. However, they could see a Maya city some two leagues inland.
In 1517, while on an expedition to procure slaves, a Spanish conquistador named Francisco Hernández de Córdova arrived on the Peninsula and asked some of the indigenous people where he was. When ...
Mexico marked the anniversary of the first serious defeat suffered by Spanish conquistadores on Mexican soil Thursday, amid the 500th anniversary commemorations of the 1519-1521 Conquest. The March 25, 1517 battle of Champotón actually pre-dated the arrival of conquistador Hernán Cortés two years later. The 1517 expedition led by Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba sailed around the Yucatán ...
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.
Francisco Fernández (Hernández) de Córdoba ( b. ca. 1475; d. June 1526), conqueror of Nicaragua. (not to be confused with Francisco Hernández De Córdoba [ d. 1518], a conquistador of the Yucatán.) Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish soldier of fortune who came to Panama sometime between 1514 and 1517. In the service of Pedro Arias de ...
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador) :"There were two Spanish conquistador s at the start of the 16th century named Francisco Hernández de Córdoba . The one described here is the generally credited as the first European to discover the peninsula of Yucatán .
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( Córdoba, España, c. 1467- Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1517) fue un conquistador español, que ha pasado a la historia por la accidentada expedición que dirigió entre febrero y mayo de 1517, durante la cual se registró para el Imperio español el denominado "descubrimiento de la Península de Yucatán ".
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko eɾˈnãndeθ ðe ˈkoɾðoβa], Córdoba, Spain, c. 1467 - Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1517) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.