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Hace 1 día · The first engagement between the Inca and the Spanish was the Battle of Puná, near present-day Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the Pacific Coast; Pizarro then founded the city of Piura in July 1532.
Hace 4 días · Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of the Inca empire and founder of the city of Lima. Pizarro is best known for expeditions to South America, beginning in 1523, his conquest of the Inca Empire by defeating a 30,000-strong Inca force with fewer than 200 troops, and his capture of the emperor, Atahuallpa.
- Francisco Pizarro was the illegitimate son of Capt. Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisca González. He lived with his grandparents, and, according to legen...
- In 1523 Francisco Pizarro embarked upon the adventure that was to lead to his lasting fame—the exploration of South America’s west coast. Over the...
- In 1531 Francisco Pizarro’s expedition of 180 men and 37 horses sailed to the Inca empire in Peru. A Spanish priest met with the Inca emperor Atahu...
- Francisco Pizarro once formed a pact with Diego de Almagro to share in the spoils of their expeditions. After Cuzco fell, Pizarro and Almagro becam...
Hace 5 días · Thomas More, as lord chancellor [1529–1532], was in effect the first port of call for those arrested in London on suspicion of heresy, and he took the initial decisions about whether to release them, where to imprison them, or to which bishop to send them.
Hace 1 día · Nicolaus Copernicus [b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
Hace 4 días · Extract from a letter dated Rome, 10 Nov. 1532. Late yesterday letters came from France. The interview between the kings of England and France was being held, the English being at Calais, and the French at Boulogne.
Hace 5 días · Niccolò Machiavelli (born May 3, 1469, Florence [Italy]—died June 21, 1527, Florence) was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman, secretary of the Florentine republic, whose most famous work, The Prince ( Il Principe ), brought him a reputation as an atheist and an immoral cynic.
Hace 3 días · Pedro de Toledo (viceroy 1532–53) reorganized the Kingdom of Naples and placed it firmly within the Spanish monarchical orbit dominated by Castile. Within the kingdom, he oversaw the eradication of the pro-French barons and attempted to install centralized, absolutist policies.
