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The plaque reads "In front of this place was the quemadero (burning place) of the Inquisition. 1596–1771" The Mexican Inquisition was an extension of the Spanish Inquisition into New Spain. The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was not only a political event for the Spanish, but a religious event as well.
About the same time he ordered his captain (and later Lieutenant) Gaspar Castaño de Sosa to found Villa de San Luis, now Monterrey, the capital of the modern Mexican state of Nuevo León. [4] [12] Castaño de Sosa is also known as the leader of the first attempt to establish a Spanish settlement in New Mexico. The attempt failed and Castaño ...
Entry into Mexico City by the Mexican army. In northern Mexico, Father Miguel Hidalgo, creole militia officer Ignacio Allende, and Juan Aldama met to plot rebellion. When the plot was discovered in September 1810, Hidalgo called his parishioners to arms in the village of Dolores, touching off a massive rebellion in the region of the Bajío.
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Mexico City: Enep-Acatlan, UNAM 1984. Greenleaf, Richard E. The Mexican Inquisition in the Sixteenth Century. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1969. Jacobs, J. Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. University of California Press 2002. ISBN 978-0-520-23517-5. OCLC 48920842; Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition. London ...
At the start of the 20th century Henry Charles Lea published the groundbreaking History of the Inquisition in Spain. This influential work describes the Spanish Inquisition as "an engine of immense power, constantly applied for the furtherance of obscurantism, the repression of thought, the exclusion of foreign ideas and the obstruction of ...
Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor [4] (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo (Spanish: [miˈɣel iˈðalɣo]), was a Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence, and is recognized as the Father of the Nation.
Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte was born in 1592 in Medina de Rioseco, Spain. [2] There is speculation that he had Portuguese heritage. [3] His father, Antonio Treviño de Sobremonte, was a Christian farmer and caretaker of the church in Medina de Rioseco; his mother, Leonor Martínez de Villagomez, was a New Christian who secretly still practiced Judaism. [4]