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Tenochtitlan allies up with Texcoco and Tlacopan. -
In 1492 Colombus reached the Caribbean, Spanish settlements were built -
In 1494, the Spanish explored the Caribbean and also enslaved some of the natives living there. -
In 1502, Moctezuma II was elected "huey tlatoani", or as the emperor of the Aztec Triple Alliance. -
In 1507, Moctezuma had his coronation conquests. -
In 1517, the expedition of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba to the Yucatán coast began. -
In 1519, Cortes left Cuba to go on an expedition. After a while, on the 8th of November 1519 Cortes and Moctezuma met. -
In 1520, it was announced that Moctezuma had died. Cuitlahuac was coronated as the successor to Moctezuma. The next month there was a smallpox epidemic and Cuitlahuac died (most likely because of smallpox). -
In 1521, Cuauhtemoc was elected "huey tlatoani", or emperor, of Tenochtitlan. A siege was started against Tenochtitlan later on. In August, the Aztec defenders surrendered and Cuauhtemoc was captured. -
By 1530, the Spanish had successfully conquested Guatemala -
In 1532, Francisco Pizzaro was outnumbered by less than 200 troops to several thousand. He tricks the Incan emperor into coming to a feast. Then, Francisco Pizzaro opens fire on the unarmed Incans. -
In 1572, the last Incan empire falls and all resistance to the Spanish ends. The conquest is complete.