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How did Hernan Cortes die?

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The Death of Hernando Cortez. The man who conquered Mexico died on December 2nd, 1547. Cortes. By modern Western standards, the Aztec nation of Mexico was a barbarian one, then again, so was the conquistador army of Hernando Cortéz that destroyed it in 1521. read more

Hernan Cortes died of pleurisy (inflammation of the lung) on December 2, 1547. He was 62 years old. read more

He did not. Instead he discovered the territories of what he called California, a name he chose from a popular early 16th-century novel and a word first printed on a map by Diego Gutiérrez in 1562. The name stuck. In 1541 Cortés returned to Spain and retired to an estate near Seville where he died on 2 December 1547. read more

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