Reign of Moctezuma II
1502–1520 · Event
The Aztec empire at its greatest extent, and then Cortes — hosted, held hostage, and dead in the siege.
On these timelines: Pre-Columbian Americas, Latin America, Master, Conquest of the Aztec Empire
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 1502
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)