Conquest of Mexico

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  • 1428

    1428

    A triple alliance is forged between the cities of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.
    This cements the power of the Aztec empire.
  • 1492

    1492

    Christopher Columbus arrived to America, landing in de Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
  • 1494

    1494

    The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed.In the Pope Alexander VI grants all the lands to the west of a line in the Atlantic Ocean to Spain, and all the lands to the east of a line to Portugal.
  • 1502

    1502

    Montezuma becomes the Aztec ruler.
  • 1507

    1507

    'America' is the first named by the cartographer Martin Waldeemuller, in honor of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
  • 1517

    1517

    Hernandez de Cordoba begin to explore the Yucatan Peninsula and Mexico's east coast.
  • 1519

    1519

    Hernán Cortés arrives in the Aztec empire and enters the capital city, Tenochtitlan.
  • 1520

    1520

    Aztecs in Tenochtitlan are massacred by the Spanish and Montezuma dies. The Spanish are driven out of the city a few months later. A smallpox epidemic sweeps through the region in the same year killing thousands.
  • 1521

    1521

    The Aztecs are defeated and Tenochtitlan is destroyed after a three-month siege by Spanish and their allies.