When did Hernando Cortez die?
Considering this, how did Hernando Cortez die? Pleurisy Additionally, what happened to Cortez? 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. By the time Cortéz died, twenty six years later on this day in…