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Feb 14, 1519
Cortes sailes for mexico from cuba
cortes leaves cuba in serch for new land -
Jul 8, 1519
Tlaxcalans attack the spanish
The Tlaxcalans attack the spanish because they thought of them as intruders, and have never seen them before. -
Jul 27, 1519
Tlaxcalans form alliance with the spanish
The Tlaxcalans form alliance because the spanish defeted most of them. They had a different tecneque of killing that the that Tlaxcalans couldnt defeat them. -
Nov 8, 1519
Moctezuma and Cortes meet.
Moctezuma meets cortes beliving he is a god. -
Nov 15, 1519
Cortes takes Moctezuma hostage
Cortes takes Moctuzuma hostage trying to take his land over. -
May 15, 1520
The spanish massacre thousands of aztecs while preparing for a religious festivle.
The spanish kill 2000 people of the Aztec. -
May 16, 1520
The spanish retreat after the Aztecs gather arms
Offended by the Spanish the Aztecs attack back. -
May 29, 1520
Moctezuma dies
Moctezuma dies from his oun people stoneing him death. -
Jun 18, 1520
The Spanish attempt to escape from Tenochtitlan but are stopped by the Aztecs - later referred to as the Noche Triste
The Tlaxcalans defeted the Spanish and caputerd them. cortes orderd Moctezuma to releace his men. -
Jul 18, 1520
The Spanish form a second attack on the now weakend Aztecs
The second attack lead by the Spanish weakend the Aztecs and made them lose numbers -
Nov 12, 1520
The Aztecs begin to die from smallpox
because the Aztecs were un immune to small pox the became ill and coulnt fight. The Aztecs grew week and the Spanish could now attack the Aztecs and have a higher advantage of winning. -
Aug 13, 1521
The last Group of Aztecs surrender
The Aztecs surrrenderd to the Spanish after loseing their lsnd snd they bsttle between the two -
Jul 21, 1522
Cortes becomes governor and captain-general of New Spain.
After conquering the Aztecs Cortes declared Aztec land as New Spain