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2 unusual facts about Nuño de Guzmán


Nuño de Guzmán

Hoping to establish a more orderly government, to reduce the authority of Cortés, and secure the authority of the Spanish crown in the New World, on December 13, 1527 the metropolitan government of Charles V in Burgos named a Real Audiencia to take over the government of the colony.

The first bishop of Mexico, Juan de Zumárraga, had arrived in the capital only a few days before the oidores.



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