The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro (ca. 1474-1541) was the obscure adventurer and ruffian who discovered and overthrew the Inca empire of Peru. Assassin of the Inca Atahualpa, Pizarro was assassinated in turn by his own countrymen. Francisco...

Francisco Pizarro Born c. 1475, Extremadura, Spain Died June 26, 1541, Lima, Peru Francisco Pizarro was one of several Spanish soldiers of fortune called conquistadors who came to the New World to seize an empire for Spain. Pizarro’s field of...

1470?-1541 Spanish Soldier and Explorer Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish soldier and explorer who conquered the Incan empire and founded the city of Lima, Peru, in 1535. He was also a member of Balboa's expedition that discovered the Pacific...

Unknown to the indigenous people of the New World, their destiny was being determined by political and economic forces taking place across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe. Toward the end of the fifteenth century, thousands of daring adventurers would be...

Francisco Pizarro González, marqués de los Atabillos (c. 1471 – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Empire and founder of Lima, La Ciudad de los Reyes, capital of Peru. Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Extremadura,...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2007. There are 124 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Aug. 29, 1957, the Senate gave final congressional approval to a Civil Rights Act after South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then...

Pizarro arrived in Peru at a very opportune time and received everything that he asked for yet, even if Pizarro had not had the Incas brutally wiped out, their culture would not have stayed alive.