Hernán Cortés

male, deceased (1547)
spanish conquistador, conquistador, City founder, castile, Spanish nobility, Colonial Mexico…NewSpain
Hernán(do) Cortés Pizarro, 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca was the "conquistador" who became famous for leading the military expedition that ini...
Antonio de Mendoza

Antonio de Mendoza

male, deceased (1552)
andalusian, Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza, conde de Tendilla, spanish language, Charles V, Codex Mendoza, Council of the Indies…NewSpain
Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza, conde de Tendilla (Spanish: "Antonio de Mendoza, tercer conde de Tendilla") (1495, Granada - July 21, 1552, Lima), was...
Pedro de Alvarado

Pedro de Alvarado

male, deceased (1541)
Accidental death, spanish conquistador, conquistador, guatemala, badajoz, Colonial Mexico…NewSpain
Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (also known as Don Pedro de Alvarado and Tonatiuh by Mexican natives; born Badajoz, Spain, c.1495, died Guadalajara,...
Juan Bautista de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza

male, deceased (1788)
spanish conquistador, from California, californio, Spanish conquistadore, governor of new mexico, californios…NewSpain
Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 1736 - December 19, 1788) was a Novo-Spanish explorer for the Spanish Empire.
Diego de Vargas

Diego de Vargas

male
U.S. states, Colonial Mexico, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Pueblo Revolt, Spanish Governor, Fiestas de Santa Fe…Spanish governor of New Mexico, NewSpain, governor of new mexico
Diego de Vargas Zapata y Luján Ponce de León y Contreras, commonly known as Don Diego de Vargas, was a Spanish Governor of the New Spain te...
Luis de Velasco

Luis de Velasco

male, deceased (1564)
spanish, Colonial Mexico, Spanish colonization of the Americas, viceroy, cholula, puebla…NewSpain
Luis de Velasco was the second viceroy of New Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century. Velasco was born...
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

female, deceased (1695)
Mexican women writer, Women writer, Spanish-language poet, writer, Mexican, Rhetorician…NewSpain
Sor Juana, also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught Nov...

Sebastián Vizcaíno

male, deceased (1624)
spanish conquistador, Alta California, NewSpain, Spanish conquistadore, Extremaduran explorer, Baja California Peninsula
Sebastián Vizcaíno was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Philippines, the Ba...

José de Gálvez

male, deceased (1787)
andalusian, lawyer, spanish, Colonial Mexico, NewSpain
José de Gálvez y Gallardo, marqués de Sonora was a Spanish lawyer and colonial official in New Spain (1764-1772).
Vasco de Quiroga

Vasco de Quiroga

male, deceased (1565)
Roman Catholic bishop, Colonial Mexico, madrigal, bishop, castile, Roman Catholic…NewSpain
Vasco de Quiroga (ca. 1470, Madrigal, Castile-March 14, 1565, Uruapan) was the first bishop of Michoacán, Mexico and one of the judges ("oidores") i...