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Christopher Columbus arrived in American Lands by mistake.
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Columbus arrived in La Deseada then Puerto Rico and finally La española.
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Columbus arrived in Trinidad, and visited other islands before going back to La Española.
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The Spanish Crown favored a series of expeditions called "minor voyages" that turned out to be very important due to the discovery of new lands and the foundation of Spanish cities.
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Columbus is arrested in America by the royal administrator Francisco de Bobadilla.
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Despite the weather problems and the lack of Spanish support in La Española, he arrived in Jamaica.
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Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, organized an expedition to Cuba, which resulted in the conquest of the island. Velazquez named governor.
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Diego Velázquez commissioned and expediton to Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba. He found the Yucatán Peninsula, but the indigenous defense decimated the expedition so they fled back to Cuba.
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Juan de Grijalva discovers the island now known as Cozumel.
There he explored the coasts of Yucatán and Golf of Mexico. -
Velázquez dicided to make another expedition with which he entrusted Hernán Cortés.
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On his arrival in Veracruz, Hernán Cortés established his operations base to make allianzes and to obtain guides and translators.
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Cortés entered Tenochtitlan.
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With the once-mighty empire of the Mexica Triple Alliance abruptly ended its days of glory, the fall of Tenochtitlan was imminent.