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Jun 20, 1325
Tenochtitlan Foundation
Legend has it that a group of nahua's who came from aztlan looked for an eagle devouring a snake on top of a cactus, there they settled. -
Jun 30, 1520
Sad night
Hernán Cortes lost the battle against the Tenocha's. -
May 26, 1521
Fall of tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan is conquered by hernan cortes with his army and allied peoples -
May 27, 1521
Viceroyalty
They made tenochtitlan new Spain and colonized it making it a country ruled by spaniards. -
Mexico's independence
Mexicans tried to remove Spanish rule and be independent of Spain -
Texas Independence
Texas wanted independence from Mexico due to it's centralist constitution and some time later it was annexed to the United States. -
Battle of Chapultepec
The us invasion of Mexico was why the us wanted more territory than Mexico gave it, Mexico defended itself the americans took the castle of chapultepec and in an attempt to take the flag the boy hero Juan Escutia threw himself into a ravine wrapped with the Mexican flag so that the americans could not take it. -
Battle of Puebla
France tried to invade Mexico, because President Benito Juárez suspended debts to countries because of it's bad economic situation and France didn't like it and invaded it but Mexico won the war -
Porfiriato 1876-1911
This event is known as porfiriato for the period in which Porfirio Díaz was President due to his reelection, Mexico achieved great economic development but at the same time the workers were overexploited with poor working conditions and poor wages. 1876-1911 -
Mexican Revolution 1910-1924
This movement was made to abolish the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz and several mexicans wanted someone else to be in charge of being President, thus began a war for power and was full of many betrayals.
