Fleet sails to Barra de Navidad, Mexico where they are to depart. Alvarado dies in July as a result of wounds in the Mixton War. August 29, JRC present in town council meeting in Guatemala; reading of Viceroy Mendoza’s letter relaying Alvarado’s death. September 10-11, Santiago de Guatemala is destroyed by mudslides and floods. Hundreds of people are killed including the widow of Alvarado, the female governor of the province