Conquest of the Aztec Empire
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Key events on this timeline
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Cortés and Moctezuma meet on the causeway (1519)
- Aztec Empire ends (1521)
- La Noche Triste (1520)
- Cortés lands at Veracruz (1519)
- Cortés scuttles his fleet (1519)
- Smallpox ravages Tenochtitlan (1520)
- Tlaxcala allies with Cortés (1519)
- Battle of Otumba (1520)
- Death of Moctezuma II (1520)
- Cortés sails in defiance of orders (1519)
- La Malinche guides Cortes (1519)
- Massacre in the Great Temple (1520)
- Aztec Empire (1428)
- The massacre at Cholula (1519)
- Smallpox arrives in the Americas (1518)
- Cortés launches his lake fleet (1521)
- Reign of Moctezuma II (1502)
- Aztec Triple Alliance formed (1428)
- Cuauhtémoc becomes the last Aztec emperor (1520)
- Smallpox decimates the Americas (1520)
- Cortés defeats the Narváez expedition (1520)
- Reign of Cuauhtemoc (1520)
- Cortés hangs Cuauhtémoc (1525)
- Great Temple of Tenochtitlan rededicated (1487)
- Viceroyalty of New Spain established (1535)
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)