The Fall of the Aztecs: War to the Death (TRIH ep 390, part 7)
1521 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook narrate and analyse the climactic stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital. They recount Cortés's construction and launching of brigantines on Lake Texcoco (28 April 1521), the strategic blockade of Tenochtitlan, and the attritional fighting along the causeways led by captains including Pedro de Alvarado, Cristóbal de Olid and Gonzalo de Sandoval.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1521
- 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)