Francisco Hernández de Cordoba
✶January 1, 1475
†January 1, 1518
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✶January 1, 1475
†January 1, 1518
2 candles from 2 countries
Would you like to keep memories of someone else?
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba was a Spanish conquistador from Córdoba, known for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were recorded. He died from wounds he suffered during the expedition after battling against Mayans.
conquistador, explorer
Biography from the article Francisco Hernández de Cordoba on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.