Fall of Tenochtitlan
1521 · Event
Cortés and Tlaxcalan allies besiege and capture the Aztec capital after 75 days; smallpox epidemic decimates the defenders.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master, Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Pre-Columbian Americas, Spain
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