Aztec Sun Stone carved
1500* · Work
The great basalt calendar stone, the most famous artwork of the Aztec empire and an icon of Mexican identity.
On these timelines: Pre-Columbian Americas, Arts and Thoughts, Latin America, Master
More from Pre-Columbian Americas
- Peopling of the Americas (14000 BCE)
- Maya civilisation (2000 BCE)
- Maize domesticated in Mesoamerica (7000 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Teotihuacán at its peak (100)
- Inca expansion under Pachacuti (1438)
- Classic Maya civilization (250)
- Aztec Triple Alliance formed (1428)
Around 1500
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)