Alvarado meanwhile commits the massacre in the …
Years: 1520 - 1520
April
Alvarado meanwhile commits the massacre in the Great Temple, triggering a local rebellion.
Cortes now makes a rapid return to Tenochtitlan, to relieve the besieged Alvarado and his men.
Locations
People
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- Bernardino de Sahagún
- Gerónimo de Aguilar
- Hernán Cortés
- Juan Velázquez de León
- La Malinche (Malinali)
- Maxixcatl
- Moctezuma II
- Pedro de Alvarado
- Xicotencatl I
- Xicotencatl II
Groups
- Totonac people
- Otomi, or Hñähñu, people (Amerind tribe)
- Mexica
- Texcoco (Acolhua city-state)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Franciscans, or Order of St. Francis
- Tlaxcala (Nahua state)
- Tlaxcaltec
- Aztec Triple Alliance
- Santo Domingo, Captaincy General of
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
Topics
- Age of Discovery
- Colonization of the Americas, Spanish
- Aztec Empire, Spanish conquest of the
- Great Temple, Massacre in the
