Latin America timeline

By coolcrabs
  • aztecs found tenochtitlan
    Jan 25, 1325

    aztecs found tenochtitlan

  • Jan 7, 1502

    montezuma

    montazuma becomes aztec empire
  • spanish found mexico
    Jan 6, 1519

    spanish found mexico

    in 1519 hernando cortes landed on the coast of mexico, and marched into the aztec city of tenochtitlan.
  • Jan 6, 1521

    aztec were conquered.

    by 1521 cortes and hismen had conquered the aztecs
  • Jan 27, 1551

    The University of Mexico is founded.

  • roit in Ciudad de Mexico

    The Catholic Church foments anti-government riots in Ciudad de Mexico

  • portugal indepence

    Portugal regains its independence and Brazil returns Portuguese

  • Jews found Curacao

  • spanish abolishes slave trade

    Spain abolishes the slave trade of Araucanian Indios in Chile

  • The state of Maranhao is incorporated into Brazil

  • Argentina declares independence.

  • Chile declares independence.

  • mexico declairs independence from spain

  • Brazil becomes independent

    King Pedro declares Brazil independent from Portugal.

  • first constitution

    The first Constitution of independent Mexico formally establishes a federal republic

  • united provences split break up

    United Provinces of Central America breaks into five republics (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica).

  • US wins Mexican American War

  • new constitution

    in 1917 a new constitution was adopted, it redistributed nearly half of mexico's farmland to peasants.

  • new political party

    in 1929 the institutional revolutionary party was made, it helped introduce democrazy and maintain stability for much of the 20th century
  • new president

    new president

    vicente fox is elected president of mexico