The Fall of the Aztecs: The Last Emperor (TRIH ep 391, part 8)
1521 · Resource
This episode is the eighth and final instalment of an eight-part series on the fall of the Aztecs. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the immediate aftermath of Tenochtitlan's fall (August 1521): Cortés's frustrations searching for hidden gold, the brutal treatment and torture of Cuauhtémoc, the social and legal remaking of the city into Ciudad de México, and the establishment of encomiendas.
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)