Latin America Timeline

  • Cortez take Tenochtitlan
    Sep 22, 1325

    Cortez take Tenochtitlan

    An ancient Aztec capital on the site of present-day Mexico City. Founded c. 1325, it was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521
  • Aztec Triple Alliance
    Sep 21, 1428

    Aztec Triple Alliance

    was an alliance of three city-states, Tenochtitlán, Tlacopán, and Texcoco, these kingdoms ruled the area of the Mexico Basin located in central Mexico from 1428 until they have been defeated the Spaniards leaded by Hernán Cortés in 1521.
  • Pachacuti takes over inca's
    Sep 21, 1438

    Pachacuti takes over inca's

    Moieties were leadership structures. In these, the lower level was called "hanan", the higher/upper one was "urin". The urin and hanan moieties have completed each other during the rule.
  • Amerigo Vespucci sails around the globe
    Sep 22, 1454

    Amerigo Vespucci sails around the globe

    Itanlian nevigator for when the continents of north and south america are named
  • Pizzaro takes Atahualpa
    Sep 22, 1471

    Pizzaro takes Atahualpa

    Spanish explorer and conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru (1531-1533). He founded the city of Lima in 1535.
  • Columbus Sails
    Sep 22, 1492

    Columbus Sails

    Italian navigator who dicoved the new world in the service spain while looking for aroute to china
  • Ferdinand and Isabella Crowned
    Sep 22, 1496

    Ferdinand and Isabella Crowned

    A king and queen of Spain in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. They united their country and sponsored the exploration of the New World by Christopher Columbus.
  • Balboa reaches Pacific
    Sep 22, 1513

    Balboa reaches Pacific

    Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519
  • Treaty of Madrid
    Sep 23, 1526

    Treaty of Madrid

    The Italian War of 1521–26, sometimes known as the Four Years' War, was a part of the Italian Wars. The war pitted Francis I of France and the Republic of Venice against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Henry VIII of England, and the Papal States
  • Jose Gervasio Artigas independence

    Jose Gervasio Artigas independence

    (June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) is a national hero of Uruguay, sometimes called "the father of Uruguayan independence".
  • Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna president of mexico

    Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna president of mexico

    mexican general who tired to crosh the texas rouolt and who lost battles to winfield scott mexican war 1795 - 1876
  • Simon Bolivar takes Venezuels

    Simon Bolivar takes Venezuels

    Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825 (
  • La Paz founded

    La Paz founded

    a city in W Bolivia, at an altitude of 3600 m (12 000 ft.): seat of government since 1898 (though Sucre is still the official capital); the country's largest city; founded in 1548 by the Spaniards; university (1830).
  • University of Mexico founded

    University of Mexico founded

    UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra[