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Bernal Díaz del Castillo

1492 to 1584 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Bernal Díaz del Castillo across 3 places, from 1492. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo ( 1492 – 1/2/3 January 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Bernal Díaz del Castillo was documented, and when

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Medina del Campoattested “Bernal Díaz was born around 1492 in Medina del Campo, a prosperous commercial city in Castile.” source: Wikipedia: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Crown of Castileattested “Bernal Díaz was born around 1492 in Medina del Campo, a prosperous commercial city in Castile.” source: Wikipedia: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Medinaattested “Bernal Díaz was born around 1492 in Medina del Campo, a prosperous commercial city in Castile.” source: Wikipedia: Bernal Díaz del Castillo

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Places Bernal Díaz del Castillo is documented in

Crown of Castile1 presence · 1492
Medina1 presence · 1492
Medina del Campo1 presence · 1492

Other places tied to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in the record

In each of these, a source puts Bernal Díaz del Castillo and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Bernal Díaz del Castillo was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

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Cubamentioned “In 1516, Diaz sailed to Cuba with about 100 other soldiers looking for a share of the gold and native laborers that were said to be found on the island.” source: Wikipedia: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Cubamentioned “It was a difficult venture and, after sailing from Cuba for 21 days, they came across the Yucatán coast in early March 1517, on the Cape Catoche.” source: Wikipedia: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Yucatánmentioned “It was a difficult venture and, after sailing from Cuba for 21 days, they came across the Yucatán coast in early March 1517, on the Cape Catoche.” source: Wikipedia: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Guatemalamentioned “In 1541, he settled in Guatemala.” source: Wikipedia: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Spainmentioned “In 1551, during a trip to Spain, was appointed ' (governor) of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, present-day Antigua Guatemala, .” source: Wikipedia: Bernal Díaz del Castillo

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