MEXICO HISTORY By facebooker_476793583354217 2500 BCE OLMEC CULTURE ARISES IN SOUTH AMERICA Period: 2500 BCE to 1492 PREHISPANIC 431 MAYAN CULTURE OLDEST ENROLLMENT DATE 800 ZAPOTECA CULTURE DATE OF DECAY OF MONTE ALBAN 1325 FOUNDATION OF MEXICO TENOCHTITLAN Period: 1492 to 1521 THE CONQUEST 1519 THE SPANIARDS ARRIVED IN TENOCHTITLAN 1520 TRAGEDY: "LA NOCHE TRISTE" 1521 FALL OF MEXICO TENOCHTITLAN Period: 1521 to 1821 COLONIAL PERIOD 1524 THE FIRST FRANCISCAN FRIARIES ARRIVE 1810 MEXICO'S INDEPENDENCE 1821 CONSUMMATION OF INDEPENDENCE Period: 1821 to 1876 INDEPENDENT MEXICO 1822 ITURBIDE PROCLAMED EMPEROR 1824 PROMULGATION OF THE MEXICAN CONSTITUTION 1835 TEXAS REBELLION 1862 JUAREZ LAUNCHES THE REFORM LAWS 1876 PORFIRIO DIAZ ASSUMES THE PRESIDENCY 1910 MEXICAN REVOLUTION