1485 - 1547
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca ( air-NAHN kor-TESS; Spanish: [eɾˈnaŋ koɾˈtes ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro altamiˈɾano]; December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the king of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Born in Medellín, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue adventure and riches in the New World. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hernán Cortés has received more than 8,839,322 page views. His biography is available in 135 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 132 in 2019). Hernán Cortés is the 10th most popular explorer (down from 7th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Spain and the most popular Spanish Explorer.
Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico in the 16th century.
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Among explorers, Hernán Cortés ranks 10 out of 405. Before him are Vasco da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, Bartolomeu Dias, Roald Amundsen, Ibn Battuta, and James Cook. After him are Zheng He, Francis Drake, Francisco Pizarro, Abel Tasman, David Livingstone, and Prince Henry the Navigator.
1460 - 1524
HPI: 90.25
Rank: 4
1454 - 1512
HPI: 84.72
Rank: 5
1450 - 1500
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 6
1872 - 1928
HPI: 82.81
Rank: 7
1304 - 1368
HPI: 82.35
Rank: 8
1728 - 1779
HPI: 82.31
Rank: 9
1485 - 1547
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 10
1387 - 1433
HPI: 80.31
Rank: 11
1540 - 1596
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 12
1478 - 1541
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 13
1603 - 1659
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 14
1813 - 1873
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 15
1394 - 1460
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1485, Hernán Cortés ranks 1. After him are Catherine of Aragon, Dragut, Thomas Cromwell, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Pedro de Alvarado, Sebastiano del Piombo, Clément Janequin, Joos van Cleve, Johannes Bugenhagen, Wolf Huber, and Sayyida al Hurra. Among people deceased in 1547, Hernán Cortés ranks 2. Before him is Henry VIII of England. After him are Francis I of France, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Sebastiano del Piombo, Pietro Bembo, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, Saint Cajetan, Vittoria Colonna, Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme, and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
1485 - 1547
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 1
1485 - 1536
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 2
1485 - 1565
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 3
1485 - 1540
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 4
1485 - 1528
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 5
1485 - 1541
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 6
1485 - 1547
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 7
1485 - 1558
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 8
1485 - 1540
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 9
1485 - 1558
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 10
1485 - 1553
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 11
1485 - 1542
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 12
1491 - 1547
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 1
1485 - 1547
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 2
1494 - 1547
HPI: 79.57
Rank: 3
1503 - 1547
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 4
1485 - 1547
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 5
1470 - 1547
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 6
1467 - 1547
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 7
1503 - 1547
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 8
1480 - 1547
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 9
1490 - 1547
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 10
1472 - 1547
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 11
1516 - 1547
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 12
Among people born in Spain, Hernán Cortés ranks 12 out of 2,932. Before him are Seneca the Younger (-4), Averroes (1126), Diego Velázquez (1599), Trajan (53), Francisco Franco (1892), and Philip II of Spain (1527). After him are Theodosius I (340), Hadrian (76), Isabella I of Castile (1451), Catherine of Aragon (1485), Ignatius of Loyola (1491), and Francisco Pizarro (1478).
4 BC - 65
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 6
1126 - 1198
HPI: 82.99
Rank: 7
1599 - 1660
HPI: 82.81
Rank: 8
53 - 117
HPI: 82.38
Rank: 9
1892 - 1975
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 10
1527 - 1598
HPI: 82.19
Rank: 11
1485 - 1547
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 12
340 - 395
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 13
76 - 138
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 14
1451 - 1504
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 15
1485 - 1536
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 16
1491 - 1556
HPI: 80.32
Rank: 17
1478 - 1541
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 18
Among explorers born in Spain, Hernán Cortés ranks 1. After him are Francisco Pizarro (1478), Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476), Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475), Francisco de Orellana (1511), Juan Ponce de León (1460), Diego de Almagro (1475), Lope de Aguirre (1518), Hernando de Soto (1500), Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465), Alonso de Ojeda (1466), and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460).
1485 - 1547
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 1
1478 - 1541
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 2
1476 - 1526
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 3
1475 - 1519
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 4
1511 - 1546
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 5
1460 - 1521
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 6
1475 - 1538
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 7
1518 - 1561
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 8
1500 - 1542
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 9
1465 - 1524
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 10
1466 - 1515
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 11
1460 - 1514
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 12