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It was a historical event that, in classical periodization, and according to some historians, marked the end of the Middle Ages in Europe and the end of the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Consisting of the arrival in America of a Spanish expedition led by Christopher Columbus by mandate of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragón.
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It touched the shores of Campeche, it was commanded by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, it came from Cuba, it touched Islas Mueres and Cabo Catoche, Hernández de Córdoba arrived in that land and baptized it with the name of Campeche. whose objective was to bring slaves from Yucatan to Cuba
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It was directed by Juan de Grijalva. (what is now known as Rio Grijalva) San Juan de Ulúa and up to the north of Veracruz. He had Pedro de Alvarado as a companion
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Captained by Hernán Cortés, it docked off the coast of Chalchicueyecan, today Veracruz, a fact that began a political-military process that would culminate in the fall of Greater Tenochtitlán and the conquest of Mexico.
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The Matanza de Tóxcatl, also called the Matanza del Templo Mayor, was an episode of the Conquest of Mexico in which the Spaniards killed the Mexica at the time when they were performing a ceremony for the gods Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli.
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La Noche Triste is the name of the defeat suffered by the Spanish soldiers of Hernán Cortés and his indigenous Tlaxcala allies at the hands of the Mexica army on the night of June 30 to July 1, 1520, the last day of the month Tecuilhuitontli, on the outskirts from Tenochtitlan, today Mexico City.
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Cuauhtémoc was captured, which meant the definitive fall of Tenochtitlán in the hands of the Spanish. From this date begins the period of Mexico's history known as the colony that lasts three centuries from 1521 to 1821. The capital of the Aztec Empire, was carried out through negotiation between local clans and anti-Mexican divisions existing and the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés.
