The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (TRIH ep 386, part 3)
1519 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-part narrative of Hernán Cortés's expedition into the Basin of Mexico. They discuss Cortés's decision to march inland, the crucial role of Malinche as interpreter and political broker, and the Spaniards' encounters en route — from the valley of Zautla and the hostile but pivotal Tlaxcalan territory to the massacre at Cholula.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1519
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)