Aztec Empire
1428–1521 · Event
Mesoamerican empire centred on Tenochtitlan; built a tribute network across central Mexico until it fell to Cortés's Spanish-Tlaxcalan coalition in 1521.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master
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- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
Around 1428
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)
- Albrecht Durer (1471)