Timeline

--1485- Born in Medellin, Extremadura, Spain

--1499- attends university of Salamanca

--1501- he failed college and left to returen to Medellin

--1502- Cortes heard stories about the expedition to the West Indies

--1511- Hernan Cortes goes to the expedition of Cuba

--1513- The town of Bayamo was established in Cuba

--1514- He becomes a rancher in Cuba

--1514- towns in Cuba were founded

--1518- captains an expedition to an established colony to Mexico

--1519- February 19, cortes sets sail to Mexico

--1519- March, cortes lands in Mexico and suppresses a town called Tabasco and he meets his translator Malinche

--1519- Sails from the Yucatan peninsula and marched to Tenochtitlan

--1520- Hernan Cortes is attacked by Aztec warriors on his way to Tenochtitlan

--1520- Cortes and his soliders are forced out of Tenochtitlan

--1521- He returns to Tenichtitlan with reinforcements

--1521- A plague strikes and many Aztecs are killed

--1528- returns to Spain and he was given the title "Marques Del Valle De Oaxaca"

--1530- he returns to the new world and settles in Cuernavaca, Mexico

--1533- Makes a final expedition and discoveres Baja, California

--1534- explored California for a year and went back to Mexico

--1540- returns to Spain for the last time

--1541- permission to fight against the Moors and Pirates of Algiers

--1547- december 2nd, he dies near Seville